"He once told a reporter he wanted his obituary to be short - "just make it born in Russia, first lesson at 3, debut at 7, debut in America in 1917"."

-- Jascha Heifetz

#Russia Quotes #America Quotes #Lessons Quotes

“This is a value-added college education if I have heard one described. And what is the most remarkable about Delaware State University graduates - is they just keeping giving back.”
“Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive.”

Source : E. F. Benson (2014). “Delphi Works of E. F. Benson with the Complete Mapp and Lucia Novels (Illustrated)”, p.6990, Delphi Classics
“We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.”

Source : Stephen Charnock (1815). “The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock ... With a Prefatory Dedication and Memoir”, p.678
“We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.”
“Some people are just born wack, you can't teach certain wackness.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 13, 2012
“I've got a lot of different religious ideas circling through my family, but the positive thing is that I was raised with a lot of openness and compassion.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dewâ€¦ Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful... and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.”
“Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.”

Source : Thomas Bernhard (2013). “Correction: A Novel”, p.244, Vintage

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