1984 Telescreens Quotes & Sayings

Can I help it if my heart beats, if my hands go cold? — Jean Rhys

Regard mistakes as teachers, not judges! — Tae Yun Kim

Each day two things I am very grateful for:the blessing of a new day and a successful ending of the day. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes a winner is just a dreamer who never gave up. — Michael Jordan

The sun in my life, it is gone, it is gone — Adam Hills

Storm is prerequisite to mental gain — Eyedea

Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of opportunity in rural America. I believe that's because if you grow up in rural America, you know you can't just keep taking from the land. You've got to give something back. — Tom Vilsack

No matter how full one's head might be with the image of greatness, one was useless, I found out, unless one was a worthy man first. — Soseki Natsume

There are times when I've inhaled my work. There are artworks still inside of me. — Willard Wigan

One of the biggest challenges for us is that people have different accounts. People say different things happened at different times, and when you're trying to sort through all that, how do you decide what's right? — Andrew Aydin

I intend to travel to Okinawa and to visit with Okinawa officials and the citizens of Okinawa at an early date. I will send my best analysis of that situation, including the local attitudes, back to Washington, to the government there. — Howard Baker

Empty pockets make empty heads. — William Carlos Williams

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders. — Tom Peters

I appear to be embarked on the turbid waters of poetry and scholarship. And a career in poetry and knowledge is as hard to guide as Plato's horses. On the one hand I must range about discovering the fundamentals of knowledge, dipping into science, politics and other arcana, forever seeking an education that is both profound and practical; on the other, I must keep spiritually alive and brilliantly alive, for poetry is, as the moral Milton conceded in practice and precept, a sensuous, passionate, brutal thing. I put in the last adjective because I am modern and angry and puritanical ... The relevance of such schedule to poetry is obvious. I cannot think it a pedantry that a man desiring to speak (or sing) something important should also desire to speak with certainty. Also if he lack scope, such as an acquaintance with science and an acquaintance with other languages, he will be romantic and an anachronism. — Robert Lowell