Mark Helprin Quotes

The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on the other, suggest that for most human beings, just as both freedom and discipline are necessary in life, serendipity and design must coexist in a work to make it readable.

Mark Helprin

Recitation: by Male by Female

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LifeWorkFreedomDisciplineControl

My summer jobs for three years were going to work in my dad's factory and earn a bit of pocket money. I absolutely loved it, and I think I learnt more there than I did at Cambridge, actually, in terms of how hard work is and how tough it is finding a job, keeping a job, managing a job and family and commitments outside of work.

Jo Cox

WorkFamilyHard WorkMoneyJob

In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.

Jesse Jackson

HistoryWallsStand UpStandDown

Live riotously lest not you regret the minutes, moments, hours and days of time gone by.

Maximillian Degenerez

LiveTimeRegretMomentsYouGone

It's very rewarding if I make a difference to a kid.

Michael Fishman

Make A DifferenceKidDifferenceMake

I'm scrappy.

Ashley Wagner

Scrappy

You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.

Arthur Miller

DayYouFindOne DaySomething

Sympathy is one of the principles most widely rooted in our nature: we rejoice to see ourselves reflected in another; and, perversely enough, we sometimes have a secret pleasure in seeing the sin which dwells in ourselves existing under a deformed and monstrous aspect in another.

William Godwin

NatureSympathyEnoughSeeingSin

When I was in the eighth standard, I would dance to 'Suraj hua madham.' I have to achieve many things before I become even the 'S' of SRK.

Sushant Singh Rajput

DanceAchieveBecomeThingsWould

With so many part-time people on - and not on - the job, corporate America has started to feel like it's on a permanent maternity leave. Colleagues are an amorphous, free-floating army of rotating waifs whose voicemails are clogged with plaintive requests from their own offices for missing information.

Tina Brown

JobPeopleColleaguesFeelAmerica

When you go through a tragedy with someone, the bond is stronger.

Nushrat Bharucha

BondSomeoneStrongerYouTragedy

It's like jazz: You learn the rules to break them - as long as you can break them in a meaningful way.

Ryan North

LearnLongYouRulesJazzWay

I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do.

Julie Harris

RoseLovelyFilmBecauseLiked

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