"The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power."

-- Major Owens

#Country Quotes #People Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I never tell an audience what they can expect. I never have and I never will. I'm an entertainer for 75 years.”
“In appointing our Ambassador to the United States at this important time, with the 1936 crisis ahead, such considerations as dignity, past career, equity and sentiment must be discarded and a man of ability chosen in the interests of the country. In the light of these considerations, we find Hiroshi Saito, present Minister of Holland, the right person for the post.”

Source : "Up Saito!". "TIME" Magazine, December 25, 1933.
“I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.”
“On second thought, I think I am more crazy than my goat.”
“Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind”
“I love potatoes - they're my favorite food.”
“There is a sacredness in tears”
“You haven't seen untidiness until you've seen a room where gravity has failed twice in different directions.”

Source : Michael Marshall Smith (2010). “Only Forward (Voyager Classics)”, p.37, HarperCollins UK

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