"The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things."

“No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.”

Source : Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.82, New York Review of Books

“Your life doesn’t happen in any kind of order. Events don’t have cause and effect relationships the way you wish they did. It’s all a series of fragments and repetitions and pattern formations. Language and water have this in common.”

“Ask almost anybody if they think the climate?s changed in the last couple of decades and they will all say ?yes? and give you lots of examples.”

“Do you often feel like parched ground, unable to produce anything worthwhile? I do. When I am in need of refreshment, it isn't easy to think of the needs of others. But I have found that if, instead of praying for my own comfort and satisfaction, I ask the Lord to enable me to give to others, an amazing thing often happens - I find my own needs wonderfully met. Refreshment comes in ways I would never have thought of, both for others, and then, incidentally, for myself.”

“The bill that job creators and out-of-work Americans need us to pass is the one that ensures taxes won't go up - one that says Americans and small-business owners won't get hit with more bad news at the end of the year.”

“when anybody talks to me as if I hadn't good sense, I'm immediately tempted to act as if I hadn't. Like sticking beans up your nose. ... you know the story about the mother who said to her children the last thing before she went out, Now be sure not to stick beans up your nose? Naturally, they would never have thought of it if she hadn't put the idea into their heads.”

“Your life is a work of art, a craft to be carefully mastered. For patience has replaced time, and you are your own destination.”

Source : Rick Jarow (1995). “Creating the Work You Love: Courage, Commitment, and Career”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

“I was really worn down by an American society that is racist, smugly blind to it, and hugely self-satisfied.”

Source : Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.