"The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences."

-- Arthur Rimbaud

#Long Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I have no scientific training at all. I was an English major in school. Everything I learned about science I've learned as a journalist would, finding out what I needed to know.”
“When a jumbo jet crashes, we will rush in with assistance, but we forget that each day 30,000 children die unnecessarily from poverty-related preventable causes - equivalent to 100 jumbo jets crashing every day.”

Source : "In Quotes: UN World Summit". news.bbc.co.uk. September 16, 2005.
“Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.”

Source : Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger (1978). “The Elements of Programming Style”, Computing McGraw-Hill
“Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from having bought a whistle when I did not want one.”
“One's first responsible job is the great revealer - far more than school.”
“A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about.”

Source : Joseph Roth (2002). “The Radetzky March”, p.206, The Overlook Press
“I'm on every worst-dressed list imaginable.”
“I've been acting since second grade, telling stories, making my parents laugh here and there, so I'm hoping my 'thing' is acting. But I also make a really good bread pudding.”

Source : "Talking About Singing with Anna Camp". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. October 3, 2012.

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