"My father said you can't make a living in birds, my relatives all went into business: bankers, stockbrokers. However, they eventually lost it all and died in wheelchairs. Sometimes you have to be a little aberrant."

-- Roger Tory Peterson

#Father Quotes #Bird Quotes #Bankers Quotes

“A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness.”
“When all hopes are lost, only then does reality acquire that sharp focus that defines who we are and what we have become.”
“A good concert, if you're kind of relaxed, it can do something to you. It's sort of an emotional break you get by listening to music.”
“here was a silence between them for a moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a longing to throw modesty and reserve to the winds and confess everything, and an equal determination to conceal the love forever, to be cool, aloof, utterly detached, to die rather than admit a thing so personal, so intimate.”
“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.”

Source : "Fictional character: Henry Chinaski". "Factotum", www.imdb.com. 2005.
“But in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.”
“There are persons who rise through grief and there are persons who fall because of grief.”
“Are You Driving With Your Eyes Open? Or Are You like Using The Force?”

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