"When I want an opinion, I'll get it from my peers - from men of vision, like our great railroad builders... Stanford, Huntington, Dinsmore... fellows with imaginations broad enough to span the continent."

-- Jonathan Raban

#Men Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Vision Quotes

“Success is ninety-nine percent failure.”
“I am so used to being able to express myself from being an actor. So when people don't understand me, I'm just completely lost.”
“It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.”
“Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.”
“Let us dig our gardens and not be elsewhere; Let us take long walks in the open air... Let us bathe in the rivers and lakes... Let us indulge in games... Let us be more simple: simple and true in our gestures, in our words, and simple and true in our minds above all. Let us be ourselves.”
“I have always followed the most passionate course.”
“Every major criminal case is always built from the bottom up. You get the underlings, you get them to plead and cooperate, and that leads to the higher-ups.”

Source : "Hardball with Chris Matthews", October 17, 2005.
“The truth was, it was myself I couldn't trust, my eyes from betraying my heart.”

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