"I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does."

-- Howard Rheingold

#Years Quotes #Doe Quotes #World Quotes

“People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they'd have my autograph tattooed. I decided I wouldn't write on people anymore, but I'd give them arms and legs and if they wanted those autographed I'd do that.”
“I am well aware that there is such a great craving in man for heroism and the heroic, and that hero worship forms not a small motif in his complex. I am also aware that, unless man believes in his own heroism and the heroism of others, he cannot achieve much or great things. We must, however, take proper care that we do not make a fetish of this cult of hero-worship, for then we will turn ourselves into votaries of false gods and prophets.”

Source : Presidential address to the first Congress of the AFPFL, January 20, 1946.
“You can't take the view of some of the sectarian parties that hard issues can't be confronted when dealing with workers. If you don't confront these issues, what will ever change?”
“Like a stool which needs three legs to be stable, mathematics education needs three components: good problems, with many of them being multi-step ones, a lot of technical skill, and then a broader view which contains the abstract nature of mathematics and proofs. One does not get all of these at once, but a good mathematics program has them as goals and makes incremental steps toward them at all levels.”
“Rhythm to me is essentially what Hopkins called the taste of self. I taste myself as rhythm.”
“We are tired out in making complaints and getting no redress.”
“Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“War is like night, she said. It covers everything.”

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