"My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days."

-- Laura Hillenbrand

#August Quotes #Thursday Quotes #Bidding Quotes

“Books are humanity in print.”
“Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.”

Source : "I Write What I Like: Selected Writings". Book by Steven Biko edited by Aelred Stubbs, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1978.
“It would be great to give back to this city and its youth brigade important lessons that will help them become future champions. I look forward to this opportunity.”
“Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.”
“To grow up without risk is to risk not growing up.”
“I'm playing like Tarzan-and scoring like Jane.”
“It is so much worse to be a mediocre artist than to be a mediocre post-office clerk.”
“Observermanship is the art of giving the impression that you are with it even though you don't know Latin very well.”

Source : Robert McAfee Brown (1964). “Observer in Rome”

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