"As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing."

-- Mike Wallace

#Birthday Quotes #Eye Quotes #Long Quotes

“I just always loved watching the History Channel and stuff like that. I could come home from school and just watch it all day. It just interested me.”
“If you don't educate yourself, you'll never get out of the starting block because you'll spend all your money making foolish decisions.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 9, 2016
“Every once in a while I run the Olympic downhill in Japan in my head. I think of how the energy is going to flow and then I make it all work for myself.”
“It's annoying when you've got a guitar and you're working on music and then you have to go and do the shopping or someone calls your mobile and you get distracted or you have to go out and do something. So it's nice to just concentrate on it one hundred percent and give your all to it.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The great mystery isn't that people do things badly but that they occasionally do a few things well. The only thing that is universal is incompetence. Strength is always specific! Nobody ever commented, for example, that the great violinist Jascha Heifetz probably couldn't play the trumpet very well.”
“Why don't church leaders forbid Catholics from joining the military with the same fervor they tell Catholics to stay away from abortion clinics?”

Source : William Blum (2014). “America's Deadliest Export: Democracy – The Truth about US Foreign Policy and Everything Else”, p.170, Zed Books Ltd.
“When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account...”
“Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.”

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