"Progress is mediation comes swiftly for those who try their hardest."

“To tell the truth, I could beat anybody in the world.”

“You know those goals you've set for yourself, those dreams you've been waiting for the perfect time to live out? It's time!”

“Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.”

“A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture.”

Source : Andreas Feininger (1974). “The Perfect Photograph”

“I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.”

“Every battalion has its marching songs.”

Source : MacGill, Patrick (2017). “The Amateur Army”, p.32, Read Books Ltd

“It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.”

“And he who gives a child a treat Makes joy-bells ring in Heaven's street, And he who gives a child a home Builds palaces in Kingdom come, And she who gives a baby birth Brings Saviour Christ again to Earth.”

Source : John Masefield (1978). “Selected poems”, Not Avail