"I just knew if it could be done, it had to be done, and I did it"

-- Gertrude Ederle

“Good things come slow, especially in distance running.”
“The first billion is a helluva lot harder.”

Source : T. Boone Pickens @boonepickens, twitter.com. May 31, 2012.
“Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.”
“Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.”
“I know whatâ€™s best for the President. I put him in the White house. He does well when he listens to me and poorly when he does not.”
“Most of the paint I use is a liquid, flowing kind of paint. The brushes I use are more a sticks rather than brushes â€“ the brush doesnâ€™t touch the surface on the canvas, itâ€™s just above [so] I am able to be more free and to have greater freedom and move about the canvas, with greater ease.”
“To make us a terrorist target in a region that is full of terrorism is dumb and unforgiveable.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.”

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