"Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them."

-- Elbert Hubbard

#Motivational Quotes #Hope Quotes #Party Quotes

“The River... It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing. Lord! the times we've had together!”

Source : Kenneth Grahame (1908). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.10
“I wasnâ€™t destined to be an astronaut. I had to turn myself into one.”
“Let each man exercise the art he knows.”
“I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.”
“If there is any method in the way I take pictures, I believe it lies in this: See the subject first. Do not try to force it to be a picture of this, that or the other thing. Stand apart from it. Then something will happen. The subject will reveal itself.”

Source : Bill Brandt (1993). “Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography”, MacMillan Publishing Company
“When I was broke, no one ever offered to buy me a beer. Now that I have quite a bit of money, everybody tries to buy me beers. Where were all these people back when I was in college and broke?”

Source : "Moneymaker under a microscope". Interview with Bernard Lee, www.espn.com. June 5, 2008.
“The selective instinct of the artist tells him when his language should be homely, and when it should be more elevated; and it is precisely in the imperceptible blending of the plain with the ornate that a great writer is distinguished. He uses the simplest phrases without triviality, and the grandest without a suggestion of grandiloquence.”
“But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.”

Source : Thomas Dunn English (1885). “The Boy's Book of Battle-lyrics: A Collection of Verses Illustrating Some Notable Events in the History of the United States of America, from the Colonial Period to the Outbreak of the Sectional War”

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