"If we fail to interest, whether because we are dull and heavy, or because our hearers are so, we teach in vain."

-- John Lancaster Spalding

#Dull Quotes #Failing Quotes #Vain Quotes

“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.”

Source : Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics
“Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport.”
“I have a knife collection.”
“someday we will regard our children not as creatures to manipulate or to change but rather as messengers from a world we once deeply knew, but which we have long since forgotten, who can reveal to us more about the true secrets of life, and also our own lives, than our parents were ever able to.”

Source : Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.18, Macmillan
“There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden. In a way, I feel that time doesn't exist in LA. Sometimes I don't know if it's February or April or October, because you're always sitting outside on the same patio, and it's 70 degrees.”
“Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's nothing more satisfying.”

Source : "A Conversation with Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins". Interview with Sharon London, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life...And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.”

Source : "We could be heroes: an election-year letter" by Rebecca Solnit, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2012.

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