"Our little solos are a note in an immense chorus vibrating grandly through the universe, a chorus which accepts and harmonizes the whir of the cricket and the long drum-roll of the stars."

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Source : Harriet Monroe (1938). “A poet's life: seventy years in a changing world”, Macmillan

Harriet Monroe

#Stars Quotes #Long Quotes #Littles Quotes

“There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them”
“It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.”
“Hear me out. Would you eat a hamburger if there was any chance it could punch you in the face? - How is a hamburger supposed to punch me in the face? Just say that it can. Would you bother? Or would you eat something else?”
“I've said for years to wives and mothers, you must start to see yourself as Sarah Connor. You must equip your children with the information they need to survive an ever-changing world.”
“People ask me, "What would you be doing without baseball?" I don't know... super-sizing fries?”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.”

Source : "The preacher comes to town" by Laura Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2005.
“Given the credible estimate that we've spent $1 trillion on anti-terrorism security”
“He boils milk with fresh ginger, a quarter of a vanilla bean, and tea that is so dark and fine-leaved that it looks like black dust. He strains it and puts cane sugar in both our cups. There's something euphorically invigorating and yet filling about it. It tastes the way I imagine the Far East must taste.”

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