"It takes so long to put a movie into production and finish it that anyone with a bad idea has time to give it to you before the movie is completed."

-- Dave Foley

#Ideas Quotes #Long Quotes #Giving Quotes

“EROEI [energy returned on energy invested, or net energy] is to a civilization what gross profit is to a business, the source of the surplus that supports the entire enterprise.”
“But this is a thing that I know--to live with fear is not to live at all. A man will die every moment he is afraid.”

Source : Deanna Raybourn (2013). “A Spear of Summer Grass”, p.280, MIRA
“One develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of us speaking, the many ways the conversation could go came and went like time-lapse film of flowers blooming and dying.”
“I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.”
“Life is full of luck, like getting dealt a good hand, or simply by being in the right place at the right time. Some people get luck handed to them, a second chance, a save. It can happen heroically, or by a simple coincidence , but there are those who donâ€™t get luck on a shiny platter, who end up in the wrong place at the wrong time, who donâ€™t get saved.”

Source : Jessica Sorensen (2013). “The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden”, p.4, Hachette UK
“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”
“When does gold ore become gold? When it is put through a process of fire. So the human being during the training becomes as pure as gold through suffering. It is the burning away of the dross. Suffering has a great redeeming quality. As a drop of water failing on the desert sand is sucked up immediately, so we must become nothing and nowhere ... we must disappear.”
“Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.”

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