"Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try."

-- Fran Lebowitz

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them.”
“Up and down the the still sparsely settled coast of British North America, groups of men-intellectuals and farmers, scholars and merchants, the learned and the ignorant-gathered for the purpose of constructing enlightened governments.”

Source : Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.231, Harvard University Press
“The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn the cost, full feet ahead on a doormat you would be ashamed to get muddy.”
“You don't want to get pigeon-holed. So, I always get attracted to parts that are different from the previous ones I've played.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“When you meet the one. It just clicks. Clicking is important in a relationship. When you click, you share the same passion and worldviews, ambitions and dreams. You are willing to share your inner thoughts, fears, desires and secrets. When you click, your partner makes you comfortable in your skin, he or she knows what you need even you're quiet, knows when to give advice and when to just listen. When you click, you allow your partner to steadily be what they desire to be, while you be a steady presence”
“Contrast warm to cool. Make color sing, ring like a bell. Work from big to small.”
“In any field, the Establishment is seldom in pursuit of the truth, because it is composed of those who sincerely believe that they are already in possession of it.”
“When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.”

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