"But without effort [God] sets in motion all things by mind and thought."

-- Xenophanes

#God Quotes #Effort Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”
“Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them. Stretch it as thin as the temple flesh of an ailing woman and still it serves to ache the bone and to move the bone about; and in like manner the night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in a torment. We will find no comfort until the night melts away; until the fury of the night rots out its fire.”
“We forget that the nineteenth century often turned work into sport. We, in contrast, often turn sport into work.”
“Medicinal discovery, It moves in mighty leaps, It leapt straight past the common cold And gave it us for keeps.”

Source : Some of Me Poetry (1976) "Oh no, I got a cold"
“As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.”
“These days movies are cut very quickly and sort of fragmented and I tend to do slower moving stories where people develop relationships with people. I think I'd probably do a lot better if I lived in Europe - I think it's more of a European sensibility somehow.”
“She didn't want to go far, just out of the trees so she could see the stars. They always eased her loneliness. She thought of them as beautiful creatures, burning and cold; each solitary, and bleak, and silent like her.”
“I'm usually a patient guy anyway.”

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