"I tend to believe that computers are drawing kids -- and adults -- away from reading purely because they provide an alternative, vast source of spare-time amusement and entertainment. I recently heard a frightening statistic: there are less than one million true readers in this country (those who read every day instead of one book per year on a beach). Terrifying."

-- Tim Lebbon

#Country Quotes #Beach Quotes #Believe Quotes

“That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel.”
“They have weaknesses, the same ones which every attack-minded team has. I'm sure that they will concede more than one at El Madrigal”
“A seed has to get buried in the soil for its real form as a plant to emerge. Only through modesty and humility can we grow. Pride and conceit will only destroy us. Live with the firm attitude, 'I am everyone's servant.' Then the whole universe will bow down to us.”
“Whenever people tell you they are going to wipe the slate clean, it's your slate they mean to wipe.”
“I said that I was gonna smash him in three rounds, and that's what I did.”
“Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment â€“ and the subtlest nuances and interplay of these feelings which words are powerless to express and which are unattainable in painting and sculpture.”

Source : Translated in Music Journal, p. 37, September, 1965.
“Putting on a beautifully designed suit elevates my spirit, extols my sense of self, and helps define me as a man to whom details matter.”
“At the worst it was eight hours of makeup, and I couldn't sit down; I was in this crouched position. [on the traumas of being an actor in full make up]”

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