"The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors."

-- Stephen Crane

#Army Quotes #Fog Quotes #Rumor Quotes

“Most artists, most painters, even composers would want to come back and redo their work. They've got a new perspective on it, they've got more resources, they have better technology, and they can fix or finish the things that were never done.”
“... the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the things of the spirit. No one whose consuming desire is either for food or for motor-cars is going to care about culture, or even know what it is.”
“You want to be like a ticking bomb. As calm as possible before the fight, to save energyâ€¦ But ready to explode the second you step into the cage.”

Source : "Exclusive Interview: Alexander ‘The Mauler’ Gustafsson – What Karate Can Learn from MMA". Interview with Jesse Enkamp, www.karatebyjesse.com.
“I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.”
“It must happen to us allâ€¦We pack up what weâ€™ve learned so far and leave the familiar behind. No fun, that shearing separation, but somewhere within, we must dimly know that saying goodbye to safety brings the only security weâ€™ll ever know.”
“There is something about dolphins. It is difficult to put into words...”
“Now I rewrite more and more severely, and I take great pleasure in cutting thousands of words out of first drafts; I think that's a pleasure worth learning as early as possible in one's career, not least because realizing that one can do it helps one relax into writing the first draft in which it's better to have too much material for later shaping than not enough.”
“He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]”

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