"In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls â€“ with the great outside world."

-- Booker T. Washington

#Book Quotes #People Quotes #Soul Quotes

“To confess that you are totally Ignorant about the horse, is social suicide: you will be despised by everybody, especially the horse.”
“It's no disgrace to be old. But damn if it isn't inconvenient.”
“Guest blogging is probably the sort of thing that you should be thinking about doing in moderation.”
“Well, you may not know this, but there's things that gnaw at a man worse than dying.”
“Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.”
“Trying to hit Sandy Koufax was like trying to drink coffee with a fork.”
“I never dreamed of being an actor, but I'm beginning to love it more and more because I like challenging myself. When I feel like I'm not learning or having fun anymore, then I'll stop.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.”

Source : Merry A. Foresta, Irving Penn, William F. Stapp, National Museum of American Art (U.S.), National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) (1990). “Irving Penn master images: the collections of the National Museum of American Art and the National Portrait Gallery”, Smithsonian Inst Pr

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