"A fire-eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself."

-- Isaac Asimov

#Fire Quotes #Kindles Quotes

“Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars are won and lost, and children transform, like butterflies, into adults.”

Source : Brian Selznick (2015). “The Invention of Hugo Cabret”, p.250, Scholastic
“My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.”
“I don't concern myself with thinking ahead to the finished product. I focus more specifically on what the character is experiencing. Once you relieve yourself of the very arbitrary and always punishing pressure of what an audience is expecting you to do, acting becomes a lot more fun and pure.”
“As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice.”
“So much interviewing these days is about the presenter - I?m a clever boy, I?m going to be smart with people; or it?s a trivial - how do you like your eggs boiled?”
“Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.”
“He will risk half his fortune in the stock market with less reflection that he devotes to the selection of a medium-priced automobile.”
“A true bond of friendship is usually only possible between people of roughly equal status. This equality is demonstrated in many indirect ways, but it is reinforced in face-to-face encounters by a matching of the posture of relaxation or alertness.”

Source : Desmond Morris (1977). “Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behavior”

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