"Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint of despair, that sliver of malice, that makes them think, 'Aha, here is the story.'"

-- Ayelet Waldman

#Thinking Quotes #Listening Quotes #Despair Quotes

“Life is fundamentally up for grabs”
“In a thousand years, archeologists will dig up tanning beds and think we fried people as punishment.”

Source : Twitter post from May 14, 2011
“I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.”
“Adina appealed to the sky. "We asked for rescue and you sent us incompetent rockstar pirates with a broken ship and perfect abs?" "Thank you, God," Petra said.”
“The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.”
“Life seems like a haunted wood, where we tremble and crouch and cry.”

Source : Alfred Austin, “A Woman’s Apology”
“Positive thinking can be contagious. Being surrounded by winners helps you develop into a winner.”

Source : Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder”, p.92, Simon and Schuster
“The Josh Brolin character in that movie [Hail, Caesar!], he's given a choice to leave, to do something where he wouldn't have to work as hard. And he'd rather work and deal with the madness of what he's doing because it thrills him, because it gives him meaning.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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