"That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do."

-- Amy Tan

#Mean Quotes #Artist Quotes #Luxury Quotes

“Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?”
“Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.”
“I want my kids to be curious, to be interested in a lot of things, to be confident, and to feel they belong in any number of situations.”
“Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.”
“When I examine the conclusion [on experiments with the electric light bulb experiments published in the Herald] which everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize as a conspicuous failure, trumpeted as a wonderful success, I [conclude]... that the writer ... must either be very ignorant, and the victim of deceit, or a conscious accomplice in what is nothing less than a fraud upon the public.”
“Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and thatâ€™s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”
“There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 22, 2013
“Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.”

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