"After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books."

-- Albert Camus

#Teacher Quotes #Retirement Quotes #Book Quotes

“If you come on my property, I've got you from the second that you enter on. There's little lasers my TVs come on in my room and fall just right on you. So, there's no way to sneak up on me. And I've got a loud dog.”
“I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.”
“I liked rock music going back to the '60s, but I never ever had any desire to be a rock musician and when I started doing a band it was experimental music.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve.”
“There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.”
“Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.”
“Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that.”
“America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.”

Source : David Riesman (1950). “The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character”

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