"In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn."

-- Miles Davis

#School Quotes #Eye Quotes #Boys Quotes

“Do nothing but be prepared to do anything.”

Source : Nathaniel Fick (2006). “One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer”, p.131, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“You can't choose between Love and Friendship. They're like a package: You either get both or you lose both”
“But her heart was so cold that she could hold ice in her mouth and it would never melt.”

Source : Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.49, Macmillan
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”

Source : Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage
“A ghost who, on the same evening, carries off an opera-singer and steals twenty-thousand francs is a ghost who must have his hands very full!”
“I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that.”
“If you're more than three feet away from a housefly, it can't see you.”
“Today there remain but a few small areas on the world's map unmarked by explorers' trails. Human courage and endurance have conquered the Poles; the secrets of the tropical jungles have been revealed. The highest mountains of the earth have heard the voice of man. But this does not mean that the youth of the future has no new worlds to vanquish. It means only that the explorer must change his methods.”

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