"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."

--

Source : "The Artist as Housewife" (1972)

Erica Jong

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Success Quotes

“Today the primary threat to the liberties of the American people comes not from communism, foreign tyrants or dictators. It comes from the tendency on our own shores to centralize power, to trust bureaucracies rather than people.”
“The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.”
“I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.”
“I would rather be judged by 12 farmers than 12 scholars.”
“Wings are not only for birds; they are also for minds.Â Human potential stops at some point somewhere beyond infinity.”
“We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths - that all of us are created equal - is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall; just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone; to hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth,”
“The heavy spacesuits are spectacular to look at but very hot. Putting one on was like going from chilly London winter weather to the Bahamas in just minutes.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“He's been in love with Miss Gina since high school, but he doesn't really know how to talk to girls, so he's just been...staying around her since then. He just tends to go where she goes." "Isn't that stalking?" Jazza said. "Legally, no," I replied. "I asked my parents this when I was little. What he does is creepy and socially awkward, but it's not actually stalking.”

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