"Now I am . . . like anyone with a strong preference for the fly rod, totally indifferent to how large a fish I catch by comparison with other fishermen. So when a fifteen-year-old called Fred, fishing deep in midsummer with a hideous plastic worm, caught a four and a half pounder . . . I naturally felt no resentment beyond wanting to break the kid's thumbs."

-- Vance Bourjaily

#Strong Quotes #Kids Quotes #Years Quotes

“Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.”
“We think a person should do right because it's right, not because their soul will be in eternal jeopardy if they don't toe the line.”

Source : Gini Koch (2010). “Touched by an Alien”, p.123, Penguin
“Magazines don't have enough confidence to have their own style, so they use a borrowed style. That is shocking to me, but your perception is very accurate. It's a way to be more commercially viable, but to me, that's not having a style, that's having a schtick.”

Source : Source: aphotoeditor.com
“I am not very smart, but I recognize that I am not very smart.”
“I've kind of always done diagrams. It helped me think.”
“If you want the Kingdom speeded, go out and speed it yourselves. Only obedience rationalizes prayer. Only Missions can redeem your intercessions from insincerity.”
“The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time.”
“Travel teaches as much as books.”

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