“If I can play one note and make you cry, then that's better than those fancy dancers playing twenty notes.” IfsI CanPlayCryTwentiesNotesFancyDancerMake You Cry Author:Robbie Robertson
“Generations from now, when historians write about these times, they might note that, in the early decades of the twenty-first century, the United States succeeded in its great and historic mission--it globalized the world. But along the way, they might write, it forgot to globalize itself.” WorldWayWritingFirstsStatesMightAmericaUnitedUnited StatesGenerationsCenturyTwentiesNotesMissionsDecadesHistorianHistoric Book:The Post-American World: And The Rise Of The Rest Source: The Post-American World: And The Rise Of The Rest
“It's impossible to write about the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath without taking note of twenty-five years of paranoia which has collected around that event.” WritingYearsFiveImpossibleEventsTwentiesNotesFive YearsParanoiaTwenty FiveAssassinationAftermathKennedy Assassination Book:Conversations with Don DeLillo Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo
“Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be ‘much not many.” ThinkingMenLittlesBookSelfReadingMeditationStudentsMastersPrideConstitutionTwentiesNotesSakeAnalysisAffectedMottoGood BookDisabledHasty Author:Charles Spurgeon