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“He did not know how long it took, but later he looked back on this time of crying in the corner of the dark cave and thought of it as when he learned the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work. It wasn't just that it was wrong to do, or that it was considered incorrect. It was more than that--it didn't work.”
Source : Gary Paulsen (2009). “Hatchet”, p.77, Simon and Schuster
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“In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture.”
Source : "The Only Way to See a Film" by Ridley Scott, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2011.
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“Fear-bola attacks the part of the brain responsible for rational thinking. It starts with a low-grade concern about the two health care workers diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas and slowly builds into fear of a widespread epidemic in the United States.”
Source : "'Fear-bola' hits epidemic proportions" by Mel Robbins, www.cnn.com. October 15, 2014.
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“The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Every time I told my cocker spaniel, Taffy, my very first dog, that we were going for a walk, she would launch into a celebratory dance that ended with her racing around the room, always clockwise, and faster and faster, as if her joy could not be possibly contained. Even as a young boy I knew that hardly any creature could express joy so vividly as a dog.”
Source : Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (1998). “Dogs Never Lie about Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs”, Broadway Books
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“I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise,”
Source : "Jacqueline Woodson On Being A 'Brown Girl' Who Dreams". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. September 18, 2014.
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“Even an ugly, abject photograph bears the recording of its making... my goal [is] to create dense objects, works in which many lines of thought converge.”
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“It happens to everybody, horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.”