19th Century Travel Quotes

#1. I can't even touch another conductor's baton. The center of gravity, the feel of the handle, puts me totally off.

Jeffrey Tate

#2. O my enormous piano, you are not like being outdoors

Frank O'Hara

#3. I don't like taking from anyone. I'd rather be a giver, though not for any worthy reason. It's about control, obviously. If I give, I control; if I take, I am controlled. If someone offers me something for free I am at once suspicious.

Margaret Forster

#4. Then a man turned
And said to me: Although I love the past, the dark of it,
The weight of it teaching us nothing, the loss of it, the all
Of it asking for nothing, I will love the twenty-first century more ...

Mark Strand

#5. Misfortune is the root of good fortune; good fortune gives birth to misfortune.

Laozi

#6. No matter how big you get, it's still okay to cry because everybody's got a right to their own tears.

Jacqueline Woodson

#7. The sun is rising. Let us feel the glint of light in the heart so that we can see and enjoy the magnificence of life.

Debasish Mridha

#8. The more you know, the more unflinchingly you deny casual beliefs and Accepted Wisdom when it flies in the face of reality, the more carefully you observe the world and its people around you, the better chance you have of writing something meaningful and well-crafted.

Harlan Ellison

#9. On first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals

R. Buckminster Fuller

#10. The trick is not to get too fanatical about getting the accent too accurate because then that becomes a mask. What I try to do is just painting and sketching some of the sounds without obliterating my own voice.

Anthony Hopkins

#11. The Count commenced to cough into his napkin, as he had determined long ago that this was the most effective means of removing wine from his windpipe.

Amor Towles