"A list of authors who have made themselves most beloved and therefore, most comfortable financially, shows that it is our national joy to mistake for the first-rate, the fecund rate."

-- Dorothy Parker

#Mistake Quotes #Joy Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I've always wanted to do a movie that takes place in the 70's and was about rock and roll and getting high, like Dazed and Confused or Fast Times at Ridgemont High.”
“I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.”
“When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.”

Source : Farewell to Baseball Address, delivered 4 July 1939, Yankee Stadium, New York
“Treat everyone how you want to be treated.”
“Truth is inner harmony.”
“In my teaching, I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts.”
“Woman, then, stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his fantasies and obsessions through linguistic command by imposing them on the silent image of a woman still tied to her place as the bearer of meaning, not maker of meaning.”

Source : Laura Mulvey (1989). “Visual and Other Pleasures”, p.15, Springer
“Iâ€™m seventeen years old, my name is Juan GarcÃa Madero, and Iâ€™m in my first semester of law school. I wanted to study literature, not law, but my uncle insisted, and in the end I gave in. Iâ€™m an orphan, and someday Iâ€™ll be a lawyer. Thatâ€™s what I told my aunt and uncle, and then I shut myself in my room and cried all night.”

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