"Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war."

-- George S. Patton

#War Quotes #Winning Quotes #Men Quotes

“The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is.”

Source : "Carol Ann Duffy: 'Poems are a form of texting'". Interview with Joanna Moorhead, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2011.
“His [Erwin SchrÃ¶dinger's] private life seemed strange to bourgeois people like ourselves. But all this does not matter. He was a most lovable person, independent, amusing, temperamental, kind and generous, and he had a most perfect and efficient brain.”
“You don't want your kids to hear songs of this nature... But you take em to the movies to watch Schwarzenegger!”
“One can't help thinking, Daddy, what a colourless life a man is forced to lead, when one reflects that chiffon and Venetian point and hand embroidery and Irish crochet are to him mere empty words. Whereas a woman- whether she is interested in babies or microbes or husbands or poetry or servants or parallelograms or gardens or Plato or bridge- is fundamentally and always interested in clothes.”

Source : Jean Webster (2002). “Daddy-Long-Legs”, p.97, Courier Corporation
“I don't know that many chords. I'd be loaded if I knew that many. But that's not my aim. My aim is to move from one vein to the other without any trouble. The biggest thing to me is keeping a feeling, regardless what you play. So many cats lose their feeling at various times, not through the whole tune, but at various times, and it causes them to have to build up and drop down, and you can feel it.”
“You'll never find your limits until you've gone too far.”

Source : Aron Ralston (2011). “127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place”, p.206, Simon and Schuster
“I remember my son wanted to go to bed with his cowboy boots on, and we had this fight for like an hour. Then I realized that the only good reason I had for him not to do it is because I didn't want him to. There was really no other reason. And finally I said, "OK, fine." It was a great victory for me, because I realized it doesn't really matter.”

Source : Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. February 18, 2009.
“I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian person.”

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