"I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations."

-- Jane Pauley

#Expectations Quotes #Awful Quotes #Underestimate Quotes

“Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.”
“War is too strange to be processed alone.”
“The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by the hyperparanoid or those hopelessly incapable of fitting into mainstream society.”
“It is simply impossible to control a large painting with the edge in the same way that you can control a small one.”
“I would like whispering with someone who is like me. But no one is.I think it is because my sizzle doesn't match anyone else's. I want something to happen so bad that it sizzles inside of me. It never stops, but it also never fits any of the choices presented.”

Source : Sarah Bird (2012). “The Gap Year”, p.70, Simon and Schuster
“I do understand that onstage there are times when you think, 'I could not be more alive than I am at this moment. I can't do most things in life. This is what I'm for.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“John Berger once defined music by saying that it began as a howl, became a prayer, then a lament, and still contains the elements of all three. I think that's pretty wise. That's about the only way I know how to explain what music is.”
“Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the other. Ridiculous to say that someone 'stole' an idea: no, no, a thousand times no. The point is the volley, and how it's carried, and what statement is made by the answering 'statement.' In other words Â— if Burroughs initiates a time-gate and says it works randomly, and then Norton has time gates confounded with the Perilous Seat, the Siege Perilous of the Round Table, and locates it in a bar on a rainy night Â— do you see both the humor and the volley in the tennis match?”

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