"There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face."

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Source : Eva Hoffman (2014). “Exit into History: A Journey through the New Eastern Europe”, p.113, Faber & Faber

Eva Hoffman

#Humor Quotes #Gleam Quotes #Faces Quotes

“Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The thing is to sift out the important sounds, little syllables and vowels that bring hints of their lost words, and not to mistake the fossil for the life, or the kiss for the love, not to mistake the fragment for the sentence.”
“I love songs. Songs are my favorite things.”
“We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.”

Source : Attributed to Gladstone in The National Elementary Principal, Volume 28, 1948.
“Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn.”
“So much of becoming a good athlete involves bringing other things to the table, other than physical skills. It involves intelligence, it involves many of the things that you learn during the process of being educated. How to analyze, how to assess, how to equate, how to reason.”
“One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
“Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.”

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