"Above all, a book is a riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk - a free fall, a loose splash, a spill."

-- Cynthia Ozick

#Book Quotes #Fall Quotes #Reading Quotes

“Living up to other people's expectations is always difficult. And then you have your own expectations and you set yourself goals that are very, very high. And that's true for everyone.”
“Young children are such nasty little beasts!”

Source : Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1909). “The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh”
“If I could find them (assemblages) in nature I would photograph them. I make them because through photography I have a knowledge of things that can't be found.”
“I'm coming to Washington, D.C., to do the people's work. And the people's work has to do with reducing spending and cutting budgets and, and trying to get a grip on the size of government.”
“Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!”
“If I never saw another airport again, I'd be happy!”
“I didn't go to Harvard or Princeton, but I can count - the defunding box canyon is a tactic that will fail and weaken our position,”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 19, 2013
“Social intercourse, even friendship among most people, is a merely a business arrangement that lasts only so long as there is need.”

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