"In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be concealed but a few paces away, he felt disarmed and helpless."

-- Henryk Sienkiewicz

#Fear Quotes #Rain Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.”
“I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive.”

Source : "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.
“It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes”
“All medical procedures require two hands, so in a sense it's like when you play an instrument. That's what they call things that they use in their work: They call them instruments. A lot of people start out majoring in medicine and drop it and change their major to music.”
“I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.”

Source : "Dr. Dre: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 11, 2013.
“To rush in upon an event before its significance has had time to separate from the surrounding circumstances may be enterprising, but is it useful? ... The recent prevalence of these hot histories on publishers' lists raises the question: Should - or perhaps can - history be written while it is still smoking?”
“Has he some psychological antipathy to realism? I am no psychologist, and cannot say. The fact remains that Euwe commits the most inexplicable mistakes in thoroughly favorable positions, and that this weakness has consistently tarnished his record.”
“I never called myself a writer because it seemed so pretentious - a writer was what somebody else called you, a title bestowed.”

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