"A fool with a tool is still a fool."

-- Grady Booch

#Tools Quotes #Fool Quotes #Stills Quotes

“And while you and the rest of your kind are battling together-year after year-for this special privilege of being 'bored to death,' the 'real girl' that you're asking about, the marvelous girl, the girl with the big, beautiful, unspoken thoughts in her head, the girl with the big, brave, undone deeds in her heart, the girl that stories are made of, the girl whom you call 'improbable'-is moping off alone in some dark, cold corner-or sitting forlornly partnerless against the bleak wall of the ballroom-or hiding shyly up in the dressing-room-waiting to be discovered!”

Source : Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “Little Eve Edgarton”, p.9, The Floating Press
“Whatever will happen will happen, but choose your companions with care. Choose them because you like to look at them and you like the sound of their voices, and they have profound secrets in them that you wish to know. In other words, choose them because you love them. Otherwise you will not be able to bear their company for very long.”
“My bag was as light as my happy-go-lucky heart.”

Source : Tove Jansson (2006). “A Winter Book: Selected Stories”, Sort of Books
“You can’t have two worlds in your hands and choose emptiness.”

Source : Mary Szybist (2013). “Incarnadine: Poems”, p.29, Macmillan
“Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.”
“Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the '84 Olympics.”
“No one built this country on their own. This nation is great because we built it together.”
“Humility is the only virtue that no devil can imitate. If pride made demons out of angels, there is no doubt that humility could make angels out of demons.”

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