"The selection of a subject is to the author what choice of position is to the general,--once skilfully determined, the battle is already half won. Of a few writers it may be said that they are popular in despite of their subjects--but of a great many more it may be observed that they are popular because of them."

-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Choices Quotes #Battle Quotes #Half Quotes

“The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.”
“A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, but a sympathetic woman gets him.”
“I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.”
“What gets up my nose is being infantilized by governments, by the BBC, by the Guardian that there is no argument, that all scientists who arenâ€™t cranks and charlatans are agreed on all this, that the consequences are uniformly negative, the issues beyond doubt and the steps to be taken beyond dispute.”
“I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.”
“Self worth and net worth are not the same.”
“Reflecting an amalgam of economics, monetary, and psychological factors, the stock market represents possibly the most subtly intricate game invented by man.”

Source : "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.
“The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.”

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