"here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness."

-- Edna Ferber

#Greatness Quotes #Texas Quotes #Confusing Quotes

“It doesn't matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you've got in your pocket. You have your own destiny and your own life ahead of you.”
“This new sport is comparable to no other. It is, in my opinion, one of the most intoxicating forms of sport, and will, I am sure, become one of the most popular. Many of us will perish before then, but that prospect will not dismay the braver spirits. . . . It is so delicious to fly like a bird!”
“Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.”
“One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not.”
“They also can combine voice with instant messaging and online file sharing.”
“Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”

Source : Yasunari Kawabata (1996). “Beauty and Sadness”, Vintage Books
“I always say this: If you a dude texts you after 2 a.m. and you reply, then you will never get called at 8 p.m. He won't take you serious.”

Source : "MTV2's Guy Code Fellows Tell Us All About Love, Sex, & Relationships". Interview with Phoebe Robinson, www.glamour.com. February 14, 2013.
“Is it not so that a son what is bad to his mother is bad to his wife?”

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