"The tradition I was born into was essentially nomadic, a herdsmen tradition, following animals across the earth. The bookshops are a form of ranching; instead of herding cattle, I herd books. Writing is a form of herding, too; I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters."

-- Larry McMurtry

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Animal Quotes

“I want to do a jean line for boys and girls that are sometimes too skinny to fit into jeans, or sometimes a little bit too husky to fit into some jeans.”
“All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.”

Source : "American Contributions to Civilization: And Other Essays and Addresses".
“Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space.”
“My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough'. That became my mantra.”

Source : "Fassbender on Fire" by Pamela McClintock, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 17, 2012.
“Lines have to smile. There have to be life, blood and heart in things you let go. They have to be human, warm and alive”
“I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.”
“We're not encouraging idols other than on the TV show, you know and that's the wrong way to do it. If we had become famous from a contest show we'd be embarrassed in my generation. But if that's the benchmark then I thought well young people who want to be filmmakers, or musicians, or whatever are screwed. But maybe they're not because what they're doing is they're creating their own thing.”
“My best idea was to not accept my wife's negative reaction when I asked her to marry me.”

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