"The continual cracking of your feet on the road makes a certain quantity of road come up into you. When a man dies they say he returns to clay but too much walking fills you up with clay far sooner (or buries bits of you along the road) and brings your death half-way to meet you. It is not easy to know what is the best way to move yourself from one place to another."

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Source : Flann O'Brien (2007). “The Complete Novels”, Everyman's Library

Flann O'Brien

#Moving Quotes #Men Quotes #Feet Quotes

“We never forget those who make us blush.”
“She brushed her eyelashes against his chest.”
“I'm very proud of being Italian-American, but people don't realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the working man, the guy who's the cop, the fireman, the truck driver, the bus driver.”
“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”
“The beauty of doing a series is that, over the course of time, it's like peeling an onion. You're able to reveal these layers, more and more. You just don't want to reveal too much, too soon.”

Source : "Harry Lennix Talks THE BLACKLIST, Joining the Series, Facing off with James Spader, Character Backstory, and Announcing BATMAN VS. SUPERMAN at Comic-Con". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 2, 2013.
“I remember when I first moved to L.A. from Michigan when I was 11 years old and I walked down the Walk of Fame and looked at the hand and foot prints of the stars and it was the coolest thing. And I never thought that mine would actually be there one day, so when it happened it was so surreal and such an honor”
“When you're through changing, you're through.”
“Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.”

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