"To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees and thanking him."

-- Soren Kierkegaard

#Legs Quotes #Knees Quotes #Different Quotes

“No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.”
“How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.”
“I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks.”
“My aunt put my cousins into a childrens modelling agency, then my mum did it with us. Me and my sister got a few TV adverts, which was good pocket money. A director saw photos of me and asked me to do a short film.”
“I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.”
“The slightest emotion of disinterested kindness that passes through the mind improves and refreshes that mind, producing generous thought and noble feeling, as the sun and rain foster your favourite flowers. Cherish kind wishes, my children; for a time may come when you may be enabled to put them in practice.”

Source : Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery”, p.439
“Nobody will tell me what I can or I cannot do.”

Source : "US Open 2014 - Victoria Azarenka: 'Can I play better? Absolutely. Will I doubt that I can play on a higher level? No chance'". Interview, www.ubitennis.com. September 3, 2014.
“We all start out with the same alphabet. We are all unique. Talent is not the most important thing --- discipline and dedication are. Craft can be learned but desire and longing are innate. Despite the demands of school and just being young, try to write SOMETHING every day --- a description, a captured emotion, a simile, a metaphor. Read, for crying out loud! A writer must read the way a ball player must go to the ballfield every day to practice. Everything is possible in this world of ours--- and so's publication.”

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