quotes about Specs

“It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.”

“Why do I want somebody to tell me what to do, tell me what I'm doing wrong? I want to be the boss.”

“I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions. The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it. In a totalitarian state, the state views any act of an individual to be political in nature. For example, the clothing that a person wears in a modern state is a private affair whereas in the Islamic Republic all women are forced to wear the hijab (Islamic attire). When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act,”

“Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.”

Source : Ariana Franklin (2007). “Mistress of the Art of Death”, p.90, Penguin

“Dances are generally more fun to think about and get ready for than they actually are when you get there.”

“I'm much more optimistic about the future than I probably was.”

“A true Leader asks advice, when he has time to think; but he never asks advice in a crisis. He acts.”

“Everything's so accelerated now.”

“My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.”

Source : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.1, Wordsworth Editions

“No one expects a Broadway musical comedy to be in the vanguard of what is bohemian, raunchy, folkloric, academic or aggressively experimental. That is not its job. Its job is to synthesize musical and social traditions with high-styled vivacity, especially those that dwell on different sides of the tracks in real life. The highbrow meets the lowbrow; sweet meets hot; uptown, downtown, all around the town.”