"The virtue of books is to be readable."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“If I could write a letter to my teenage self, I'd probably say something like: 'You ain't gonna believe what will become of you.'”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2009.
“It brings me great grief and sadness to hear of the passing of one of the best and most respected trainers of this era, Emanuel Steward. I learned a lot from him during our professional relationship and I will be forever grateful for his help during that time. We were also friends and I know I am going to miss him as so many others will too. He was an important part of our boxing community.”
“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.”
“After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.”
“New tracks like Las Vegas, hell, you could drive off the end of that track and continue safely 20 miles into the desert. But there's not a day goes by I don't think of Scott [Kalitta]. It's still traumatic.”

Source : Source: blog.caranddriver.com
“I suppose you just feel on an instinctive level if something is honest.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I have, and do sometimes, work with other media. But there is something about the physical activity and the directness of painting that I find fascinating. I am very attracted to the materiality of paintings and the visual phenomena of hue and value.”
“I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.”

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