"I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes or landscapes."

-- Ken Burns

#Artist Quotes #Landscape Quotes #Might Quotes

“The connection between authors, printers, and booksellers must be kept up.”
“You can't educate people that are not healthy. But you certainly can't keep them healthy if they're not educated.”

Source : "Then & Now: Joycelyn Elders". www.cnn.com. July 20, 2005.
“I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway.”
“I have never had a dietician and I never will, unless I get a disease.”
“My life off the court has changed. I'm feeling good inside, so I guess it shows on the outside too”
“My steamboat voyage to Albany and back, has turned out rather more favorable than I had calculated. The distance from New York to Albany is one hundred and fifty miles; I ran it up in thirty-two hours, and down in thirty. I had a light breeze against me the whole way, both going and coming, and the voyage has been performed wholly by, the power of the steam engine. I overtook many sloops and schooners beating to windward and parted with them as if they had been at anchor. The power of propelling boats by steam is now fully proved.”
“Be strong , my young friends; that is my advice to you. You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through the study of the Gita. These are bold words; but I have to say them, for I love you. I know where the shoe pinches.”
“If the Republican Party shifts to the right, how will we know?”

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