"though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Corn Quotes #Toil Quotes #Plot Quotes

“I can sing better after shooting smack in both arms than after eating too much,”
“Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its single, pair or triplet of essential images.”
“Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.”
“The nature of light is a subject of no material importance to the concerns of life or to the practice of the arts, but it is in many other respects extremely interesting.”

Source : Thomas Young (1807). “A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts: In Two Volumes”, p.457
“We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way.”
“I first foreswore motherhood when I was about eight years old. ... [Children] were annoying. We were loud and sneaky and broke things. As an eight-year-old, maybe I was simply mortified by the prospect of being saddled with myself.”
“People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.”
“My problem might be that even if I did go home, I wouldnâ€™t belong there, among people who give without thinking and care without trying.”

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