"I've always been interested in plants because I'm a gardener, so I have a basic understanding of botany and things like that, but it's all self-taught."

-- Michael Pollan

#Self Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Taught Quotes

“I'd rather you walk with the bases loaded.”

Source : "Top Of The Sixth" by Tom FitzGerald, www.sfgate.com. March 6, 1996.
“Death is just the moment that your hourglass runs out of sand. That's it. It happens to everyone eventually. All any of us gets to decide is where the sand falls.”
“Every place is a goldmine. You have only to give yourself time, sit in a teahouse watching the passers-by, stand in a corner of the market, go for a haircut. You pick up a thread â€“ a word, a meeting, a friend of a friend of someone you have just met â€“ and soon the most insipid, most insignificant place becomes a mirror of the world, a window on life, a theatre of humanity.”

Source : Tiziano Terzani (1997). “A fortune-teller told me”, HarperCollins
“I'd like to think I'm actually a nice person in real life.”

Source : "Katie Cassidy Dishes on Gossip Girl". Interview with Dan Koday, www.seventeen.com. October 20, 2010.
“Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.”
“Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.”
“The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know.”
“The most poor and backward areas in the world are those in which women are subjugated and exploited. Improving the situation of the woman improves the family, the community, and by extension the whole country.”

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