"Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time."

-- Publilius Syrus

#Done Quotes #Nothingness Quotes

“Anyone who thinks you can pay $3,100 to the federal government and thinks you can get that money back completely in services - like I said - he may go to M-I-T but he is an N-U-T.”
“Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.”
“We're all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around, enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or so before splitting up to become bits and pieces of trees and stars and french fries.”

Source : Alan Dean Foster (2013). “Glory Lane”, p.37, Hachette UK
“Sometimes when you get on a new movie you kind of how to figure out the way other people work and it can be like being the new kid in high school where you're just trying to find out where your place is on the movie or on the set.”

Source : "Luke Wilson and Andrew Wilson Interviewed - THE WENDELL BAKER STORY". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 16, 2007.
“It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The pain unendurable.”

Source : James Ramsey Ullman (1988). “Banner in the sky”
“Experience is the extract of suffering.”
“It's so difficult to feel comfortable in the body you have. You always want to look a different way, taller or thinner, whatever it may be. I still struggle with it. I think everybody does.”
“In real life I'm very low-key. A wallflower. One of the reasons I went into comedy and acting was that I was sick of being shy.”

Source : "Jemaine Clement: 'I was in a public park replicating gay porn pics in my underpants'". Interview Killian Fox, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2010.

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