"'He is very ugly,' said his mother."

-- Taylor Caldwell

#Mother Quotes #Ugly Quotes #Said Quotes

“You think you're developing and getting better and then you see something you did years ago. Looking at your early work.. sometimes it has a depth that surprises you.”
“Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.”
“The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.”
“Live up to other people's best attributes, not down to their worst.”
“I canâ€™t help feeling a little bit competitive and a little bit disappointed in myself that Iâ€™m already so far behind. After all, Yulikova thinks Barron has a real future with the Bureau. She told me so. I told her that sociopaths are relentlessly charming. I think she figured I was joking.”
“I love teaching poetry writing. Students come into the class thinking poetry has to be one way, then leave having created pieces that are wholly original, that have - quite literally - never been made before.”

Source : Source: www.redividerjournal.org
“Perhaps we humans are cosmic dwarfs; perhaps we are molecular giants. But there is no denying our mid-scale complexity. We humans live neither at the range of the infinitely small, nor at that of the infinitely large, but we might well live at the range of the infinitely complex. We live at the range of the most caring; we ourselves might embody the most capacity for caring.”
“It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them.”

Source : "Dustin Hoffman and me" by John Burnham Schwartz, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2012.

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