"It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go for the completion of our humanity. It is books that bear from age to age the intellectual wealth of the world."

-- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

#Book Quotes #School Quotes #Drawing Quotes

“You could care enough to keep a secret, but you could care enough to tell one, too.”
“I know what it feels like to be bruised; I know what it feels like to carry things around with you that never totally heal. There's closure and then there's stuff that's kind of like, Well, I guess it's going to be in the minivan forever. And you carry it with you and you continue on your journey with your minivan full of stuff, which I think most of us do.”
“I would rather quit public life at seventy, and quit it forever, than to retain public life at a sacrifice to my own self-respect. I will not vote for any law which will make fair for me and foul for another. The blacklist is the most cruel form of oppression ever devised by man for the infliction of suffering upon his weaker fellows.”

Source : "Uncle Joe Cannon" by L. White Busby, (p. 278), 1927.
“They think I'm depressed because I look serious in photos. It's usually because I'm just nervous. But I've stopped dressing for other people. If I think I look good, that's the most important thing.”

Source : "Glenn Close and Rose Byrne's Fashion Face-Off" by Laura Morgan, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 16, 2009.
“God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.”
“Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.”
“... as lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on.”
“I was given the name by my brother when I was about eleven or twelve years old. He was older than me, and around that age I was starting to get into girls, and when they would call the house for him, and when he was not there, I would try to talk to them. I was trying to be the man and trying to get them to come and see me, not worrying about him. When he found out... he started calling me Ice Cube as a joke because he said I was trying to be too cool. I just liked it and started telling everybody in the hood "my name is Ice Cube."”

Source : "The Believer Interview: Ice Cube". Interview with Linda Saetre, blog.longreads.com. December 2003.

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