"The northern people are riders and the southern people sailors; it is said quite true."

-- Liu Bei

#People Quotes #Southern Quotes #Sailor Quotes

“It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry'...”
“I've always known that the best part of writing occurs before you've picked up a pen. When a story exists only in your mind, its potential is infinite; it's only when you start pinning words to paper that it becomes less than perfect. You have to make your choices, set your limits. Start whittling away at the cosmos, and don't stop until you've narrowed it down to a single, ordinary speck of dirt. And in the end, what you've made is not nearly as glorious as what you've thrown away.”
“No one has nicer teeth than me. Why would anyone laugh at my lovely teeth?”
“I need to meet people to be able to write.”
“Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.”
“I was maybe 5 or 6, and my grandmother would begin sitting me in the Quaker meeting house. I asked my grandmother, 'What am I supposed to do?' and she said, 'Just wait, we're going inside to greet the light.' I liked thatâ€”this idea to go inside to find that light within, literally as well as figuratively.”
“A man's knowledge may be said to be mature, in other words, when it has reached the most complete state of perfection to which he, as an individual, is capable of bringing it, when an exact correspondence is established between the whole of his abstract ideas and the things he has actually perceived for himself. His will mean that each of his abstract ideas rests, directly or indirectly, upon a basis of observation, which alone endows it with any real value; and also that he is able to place every observation he makes under the right abstract idea which belongs to it.”

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