"Adventure-seasoned and storm-buffeted, I shun all signs of anchorage, because The zest of life exceeds the bound of laws."

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Source : Claude McKay, William Maxwell (2004). “Complete Poems”, p.191, University of Illinois Press

Claude McKay

#Adventure Quotes #Zest Quotes #Law Quotes

“The key to success is having some discipline, .. You don't have to be rocket scientist.”
“I am the girliest girl.”
“A strong reputation is like a good bonfire. When you have one kindled it's easy to keep the flame burning, even if someone comes along and tries to piss on it. But if you fall asleep and neglect it...You'll wake up with ashes.”
“It sometimes happens that you just know... You have a feeling that things are coinciding, and that they operate and work on a number of levels - obviously visual aesthetics, but also content and narrative in terms of the bigger picture. When document and metaphor come together.”
“How is it having more control if there is double the immigration as there would be under an Australian style points system?”
“Advertising, as a single entity capable of creating vast changes in our social structure, simply does not exist. Its impact is too diffuse, too omnidirectional.”
“Rocky Marciano had such guts and heart. He was something special.”
“So, eventually, he made one final arrangement with himself, which he has religiously held to ever since, and that was to count each fish that he caught as ten, and to assume ten to begin with. For example, if he did not catch any fish at all, then he said he had caught ten fish - you could never catch less than ten fish by his system; that was the foundation of it. Then, if by any chance he really did catch one fish, he called it twenty, while two fish would count thirty, three forty, and so on.”

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