Quotes
Authors
Richard Linklater

"Slackers might look like the left-behinds of society, but they are actually one step ahead, rejecting most of society and the social hierarchy before it rejects them. The dictionary defines slackers as people who evade duties and responsibilities. A more modern notion would be people who are ultimately being responsible to themselves and not wasting their time in a realm of activity that has nothing to do with who they are or what they might be ultimately striving for."

-- Richard Linklater

#Responsibility Quotes #People Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling.”
“Deterrence failed completely as a guide in setting rational limits on the size and composition of military forces, spurring an insatiable arms race with a reckless proliferation of the most destructive power ever unleashed, tailored for delivery by a vast array of vehicles to a stupefying array of targets.”
“I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter”
“To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler.”

Source : "Night Lights: Bedtime Stories for Parents in the Dark". Book by Phyllis Grissim-Theroux, 1987.
“The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall, nations perish, civilizations grow old and die out, and after an era new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the heart of men centuries dead. -”

Source : Clarence Day (1920). “The story of the Yale University Press told by a friend”
“It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.”
“This is growing up, having to stomp out love, this is how people turn terrible.”
“I've bowed to you for too long, and if I continue to do it, we will all suffer.”

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