quotes about Second Place

“Heroes come in all sizes, and you don't have to be a giant hero. You can be a very small hero. It's just as important to understand that accepting self-responsibi lity for the things you do, having good manners, caring about other people-these are heroic acts. Everybody has the choice of being a hero or not being a hero every day of their lives.”

Source : "Of Myth And Men". Interview with Bill Moyers, content.time.com. April 18, 1999.

“Years ago I was a runway model, and I used to get laughs. I thought it was a joke anyway”

“My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing. I power wash everything: my wife, the mailman with the f-cking mail, power wash his ass, f-ck my mail up, I don't care.”

“Productive collaborations between family and school, therefore, will demand that parents and teachers recognize the critical importance of each other's participation in the life of the child. This mutuality of knowledge, understanding, and empathy comes not only with a recognition of the child as the central purpose for the collaboration but also with a recognition of the need to maintain roles and relationships with children that are comprehensive, dynamic, and differentiated.”

“Follow your heart and make it your decision.”

“IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.”

Source : Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

“In a couple of years I think it [sequel to What We Do] will come out as a script and we'll shoot that. Or maybe it will just come out as some t-shirts.”

“There can be no evolutionary advantage to laying down memories of childhood or perceiving the color of a rose if it doesn't affect the way you're going to move later in life.”

“The role of the painter . . . is to project that which sees itself in him.”

Source : Max Ernst, Werner Spies, Sabine Rewald, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (2005). “Max Ernst: A Retrospective”, p.54, Metropolitan Museum of Art

“Coeur qui soupire n'a pas ce qu'il desire. The heart that sighs does not have what it desires.”