"You fish, swim, eat, laze around, and everyone's so friendly. It's such simple stuff, but... If i could stop the world and restart life, put the clock back, i think I'd restart it like this. For everyone."

--

Source : Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.105, Penguin

Alex Garland

#Simple Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Swim Quotes

“I don't think that there has been a film that I've done that hasn't been influenced by libraries and archives.”
“Any time a running back reaches the age of 31 or 32, he has to lose a step. No one is a freak of nature. No one is going to be able to take the pounding a running back has to take over a 10- or 12-year career and not lose a step.”
“I don't know whether anyone will care to examine my heart, but if they do, they will find two words there- 'social justice.' For that is what I have believed in and fought for.”

Source : Upton Sinclair (2016). “The Autobiography of Upton Sinclair”, p.479, Pickle Partners Publishing
“My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.”
“Emotional instability can be one of the factors giving rise to a failure by chess players in important duels. Under the influence of surging emotions (and not necessarily negative ones) we sometimes lose concentration and stop objectively evaluating the events that are taking place on the board.”
“I'm a doer, and whether it was the tsunami in Sri Lanka or the earthquake in Indonesia, I was always saying, I should be there; I should be helping out.”
“In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it.”
“Remember kids: Don't get emotionally attached to a band. You'll get pregnant and die.”

You may also like:

Alicia Vikander
Film actress
Danny Boyle
Film director
Domhnall Gleeson
Actor
John Wagner
Writer
Karl Urban
Actor
Kazuo Ishiguro
Novelist
Olivia Thirlby
Actress
Oscar Isaac
Actor
Mark Romanek
Filmmaker