"When I'm writing a woman character, I don't think, 'What would a woman do?' I just think, 'What would this character do in this situation?"

-- Ken Follett

#Writing Quotes #Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.”

Source : Jean Cocteau, Margaret Crosland (1972). “Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings”, Owen
“To put the matter in Aristotelian terminology, visual impressions are prior in the order of being to concepts pertaining to physical color, whereas the latter are prior in the order of knowing to concepts pertaining to visual impressions.”
“Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?”

Source : François Le Lionnais (2004). “Great Currents of Mathematical Thought: Marthematics in the Arts and Sciences”, p.126, Courier Corporation
“Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.”
“I want the cheesy dates at the movies, the stupid walks at the beach and sharing straws in a cup”
“Magic is antiphysics, so it can't really exist. But is shares one thing with science. I can explain the principle behind a good science experiment in 15 seconds; the same way with magic.”
“I do not wish to help Jeremy Clarkson be amusing in the event of my death.”

Source : "Top Gear" with Richard Hammond, July 27, 2008.
“Evil is nothing but a word, an objectification where no objectification is necessary. Cast aside this notion of some external agency as the source of inconceivable inhumanity - the sad truth is our possession of an innate proclivity towards indifference, towards deliberate denial of mercy, towards disengaging all that is moral within us. But if that is too dire , let's call it evil. And paint it with fire and venom.”

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