"I suppose you could call me...Soot," said the thing. "Yes...Soot. I have breathed it, lived in it, and eaten it for so long that it is a fitting name." "Eaten it?" asked Suzy. "Why eat soot?" "Boredom," said Soot."

-- Garth Nix

#Names Quotes #Long Quotes #Boredom Quotes

“No man is ever whipped until he quits - in his own mind.”
“If you get a certain amount of notoriety for doing something, and you can stick to that type of project for the rest of your life and make a decent living, I think you still have a responsibility to stretch. Flexibility is what keeps you alive.”
“There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.”
“I had a nightmare that I slept without my nose tape on thank God it wasn't true!”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 31, 2010
“I think that's the job of the writer, right? Not to introduce new ideas or feelings, but to name the ones we know most intimately but are afraid of speaking, or don't have the words. That's what I find most powerful anyway.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The ruling family in Kuwait is good at blackmail, exploitation, and destruction of their opponents. They had perpetuated a grave U.S. conspiracy against us.... stabbing Iraq in the back with a poisoned dagger.”
“I don't like making a film and having the actors in character too much in magazines and on the net and everything else. Because you want to keep something back.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love.”

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