Famous quotes containing the words risk, free and/or rate:
“Every day, in this mostly male world, you have to figure out, Do I get this by charming somebody? By being strong? Or by totally allowing my aggression out? Youve got to risk failure. The minute you want to keep poweryouve become subservient, somebody who does work you dont believe in.”
—Paula Weinstein (b. 1945)
“In New Yorkwhose subway trains in particular have been tattooed with a brio and an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shamenot an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.... Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the haves.”
—Gilbert Adair, British author, critic. Cleaning and Cleansing, Myths and Memories (1986)
“I dont know but a book in a mans brain is better off than a book bound in calfat any rate it is safer from criticism. And taking a book off the brain, is akin to the ticklish & dangerous business of taking an old painting off a panelyou have to scrape off the whole brain in order to get at it with due safety& even then, the painting may not be worth the trouble.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)