"Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women."

-- Maya Angelou

#Life Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“There are travelers who fear to own delicate hands more than to meet a lion, and soldiers who would rather lose a limb than gain a beautiful nose by artificial methods.”
“I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.”

Source : "Alan Tudyk Talks TUCKER & DALE VS. EVIL, ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER, SUBURGATORY, and Working With Joss Whedon". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 28, 2011.
“A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. Store it with ideas, teach it the pleasure of thinking; and the temptations of the world without, will be counteracted by the gratifications derived from the world within.”

Source : Ann Radcliffe (1795). “The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry”, p.15
“A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”
“In the distance someone is singing.”
“Be bullied, be outraged, by killed, but do not kill.”

Source : Wilfred Owen (1965). “The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.22, New Directions Publishing
“The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission.”

Source : Anne Truitt (1996). “PROSPECT: The Journal of an Artist”, Scribner
“Now everyone has eyes, and now everyone has evidence. That's really changed how we tell the news and what we get from it.”

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