"The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind."

-- Albert Camus

#Life Quotes #Arrogance Quotes #Mind Quotes

“A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.”

Source : Clark Kerr (2001). “The Uses of the University”, p.14, Harvard University Press
“No bird in a cage ever speaks. What is there to say? The sky is everywhere, churning above its head, blue and endless, calling out to it. But the caged bird can't answer anything except 'I cannot'.”
“'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns.”

Source : "The Interview: "Opus's" Berkeley Breathed". Interview with Michael Cavna, voices.washingtonpost.com. October 22, 2008.
“I've always been quite careful about what I wanted to do. I've just never wanted to revisit old ground or do something that's easy. I want to do something that I would look at and go, "I don't know what to do!" The most exciting thing is when you're a bit scared, so I'm looking to find something that's really terrifying.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis, for object, strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility.”
“To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective.”
“As Christians try to force prayer into public schools, they often settle for a 'moment of silence.' But that supposedly innocuous 'moment of silence' is a deafening roar to a nonbeliever.”
“A Gentleman's agreement cannot be broken without breaking the person who has entered into it.”

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