When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then, if they like what they see, they listen. Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents. For the dream of yesterday, is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. But that's what being an artist is -- feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy. Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment. He enjoys much who is thankful for little; a grateful mind is both a great and happy mind. That we can comprehend the little we know already is mindboggling in itself. It is never wholly possible for me to mean what I say or say what I mean, because the fact of my using signs [words] at all always leaves my meaning dispersed, divided, and never quite at one with itself. |