"My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?"

-- Flip Wilson

#Self Quotes #Want Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked around with entire poems and all the Shakespearean soliloquies in their heads....”
“Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Climbing is often group activity and it's always inspiring to see how other people, who share your passions, do things.”
“Elena had always felt like the center of her own world - who doesn't? The world arranged itself around her like petals around the stem of a flower. This way the meadows, that way the woodland. Over here, the baryn's estate, out there, the hills that hug the known world close and imply a world at beyond. She could never come up with the edge of a world, because it always kept going on beyond. She moved the center of the world as she walked. The world was balanced on her head.”
“Maybe what frightens us about the edge isn't our fear of morality, but the thoughts it leads us to have.”
“I have a feeling I'm falling on rare occasions but most of the time I have my feet on the ground I can't help it if the ground itself is falling.”
“The U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process.”

Source : "Anger over Bush energy plan". www.cnn.com. May 18, 2001.
“Indians still consider the whites a brutal people who treat their children like enemies - playthings, too, coddling them like pampered pets or fragile toys, but underneath always like enemies, enemies that must be restrained, bribed, spied upon, and punished. They believe that children so treated will grow up as dependent and immature as pets and toys, and as angry and dangerous as enemies within the family circle, to be appeased and fought.”

Source : Mari Sandoz (1959). “Hostiles and Friendlies: Selected Short Writings of Mari Sandoz”, p.32, U of Nebraska Press

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