"There is one thing you know for sure, one fact that never fails to comfort you: the worst day of your life wasn't in there, in that mess. And it will do you good to remember the best day of your life wasn't in there, either. But another person brought you closer to those borders than you had been, and maybe that's not such a bad thing."

-- Sloane Crosley

#Facts Quotes #Comfort Quotes #Borders Quotes

“I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.”

Source : "The sensation of writing is the same for me as taking a pee". Interview with Sarah Rowland, www.esquire.com. November 11, 2014.
“A good stylist should have narcissistic enjoyment as he works. He must be able to objectivize his work to such an extent that he catches himself feeling envious and has to jog his memory to find that he is himself the creator. In short, he must display that highest degree of objectivity which the world calls vanity.”
“I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.”
“Dear Sweetheart, Without you my days are endless. Days seem like weeks... Weeks feel like months... Months like years... Years like centuries... Centuries like... You get the idea.”
“Peace begins with a smile-smile five times a day at someone you really don't want to smile at. Do it for Peace.”
“I got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost vorth having children.”
“My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.”

Source : "60 Minutes", www.cbsnews.com. 2003.
“Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.”

Source : William Warburton, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Works: To which is Prefixed a Discourse by Way of General Preface, Containing Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author”, p.62

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