"Being in the limelight has its minuses."

-- Jon Postel

#Limelight Quotes

“I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be made that will prompt me to alter various ideas I have about human evolution.”

Source : "The Quest for Human Origins". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.
“Sometimes it takes years for a person to become an overnight success.”
“When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.”
“The unorganized mind will always be restless until its content is reordered.”

Source : ERVIN SEALE (1971). “TAKE OFF FROM WITHIN”
“...the Lord said as He drew near His passion, 'Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in Him. If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself; and He will glorify Him at once' (Jn. 13:31-32). From This it is clear that divine gifts follow sufferings endured for the sake of virtue.”
“I do know this: When somebody has to look great on the screen, that's the death of funny.”

Source : "Farrelly Brothers: Hall Pass With Owen Wilson & Sudeikis". Interview with Chris Lee, www.thedailybeast.com. February 22, 2011.
“I almost flunked first grade and also the second, third, forth, and fifth; but my younger brother was in the grade behind me and he was a brain and nobody wanted to have me be in the same grade as him, so they kept passing me. I never learned how to spell, graduated from eighth grade counting on my fingers to do simple addition, and in general was not a resounding academic success.”
“A burnt finger remember the fire.”

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