"The poem in which the reader does not feel himself or herself a participant is a lecture, listened to from an uncomfortable chair, in a stuffy room, inside a building."

-- Mary Oliver

#Doe Quotes #Rooms Quotes #Lectures Quotes

“We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.”

Source : "Scientific American", Vol. 267, 1992.
“My son gave me the permission to accept my success.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Critics should stick to their convictions.”
“I'm particularly fond of boned chicken breasts with a little garlic under the flesh and cooked in a casserole for 40 minutes with a jar of olives, some cherry tomatoes and a spoonful of olive oil.”
“When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.”
“In a world where companies increasingly know about their business in real time, it makes no sense that public reporting mostly follows the old quarterly schedule. Companies sit on vital information until reporting day, at which point the market goes crazy.”
“What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference.”
“There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.”

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