"I am too inexperienced and ignorant to conduct myself with propriety in this town, where every thing is new to me, and many things are unaccountable and perplexing."

-- Fanny Burney

#Ignorant Quotes #Towns Quotes #Propriety Quotes

“I'm not interested in writers who are overcome with certainty, with single-mindedness, or with a sense of how consistent and morally upstanding they are. My writers are in the thick of it and they seek the truth, rather than embody it, and sometimes they find truths that don't sit palatably or easily together. That's life. That's personality. And that's writing.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.”
“As a businessman, you have to trust people. To find two people who lied the way [Vick and Petrino] lied, that's unique and that's not Arthur's fault. It's not a flaw of Arthur's. It's a flaw of these two guys.”
“Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.”

Source : Tanith Lee (1987). “Tales from the Flat Earth: Night's Daughter”
“So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.”

Source : Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.149, Anchor
“Don't just work for the money; that will bring only limited satisfaction”
“So you will see us continue to advance the state of the art or take information that we have in our response data bases and have that drive automation or an automated response by some of our products.”

Source : "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.
“Select such subjects that your pupils cannot walk out without seeing them. Train your pupils to be observers, and have them provided with the specimens about which you speak. If you can find nothing better, take a house-fly or a cricket, and let each one hold a specimen and examine it as you talk.”

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