"You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat."

-- Ella Maillart

#Boys Quotes #Climbing Quotes #Laughing Quotes

“A hand up is worthier than one's own fist grasping a higher rung of the ladder.”

Source : Doris Grumbach (2014). “Coming into the End Zone: A Memoir”, p.8, Open Road Media
“I tend to over-analyse things. I'm not the type of person to flip a coin and let things happen.”
“Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.”
“I kinda like Florida. It's hot as hell, but we moved to Tallahassee, which is so close to Georgia. It really wasn't Florida the way people think of Florida. It wasn't south Florida. But you could still easily drive to Panama City Beach and get a little bit of Redneck Riviera if you want that. Get some airbrushed T-shirts on, and you're done.”
“I want to play Geum Jandi in Boys over Flowers.”
“If we are always reading aloud something that is more difficult than children can read themselves then when they come to that book later, or books like that, they will be able to read them - which is why even a fifth grade teacher, even a tenth grade teacher, should still be reading to children aloud. There is always something that is too intractable for kids to read on their own.”
“Art is the lesser sister to medicine. It aims to heal.”
“There's so many things that can go wrong in the execution of a project like a television show or a movie, so many little elements, any number of things, all the way to marketing - like they could market it poorly and nobody finds it and down it goes.”

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