"I want to live my life in a way that when I get really old, I look back at my life and say: aaah I lived it, not survived it."

-- Kate Moss

#Looks Quotes #Want Quotes #Way Quotes

“Whether your characters journey daily to a distant moon or just down the street to the corner bar, what matters to the reader is the singular event that distinguishes one such voyage from all the others and makes for a story worth telling.”
“We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.”
“To me, the capacity to earn money has never been a measurement of success. It is my belief that people must develop a philosophy early in life which permits them to have as much pleasure, enjoyment and satisfaction now as is possible without injuring themselves or others. Money can help to do this, but it is not and must not become the sole aim of a person's existence. We all know what happened to King Midas.”
“Yes, my first memory of singing, in general, was of a Christmas song. And then listening to Christmas music was really the first music I was ever connected to.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“During a mock battle attended by President Warren Harding in 1921, Marine Corps General Smedley D. Butler exhumed the arm [of Stonewall Jackson; he didn't believe it was buried there] and reburied it in a metal box.”
“Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.”
“Time is running out fast. I think we have maybe a few months -- it could be weeks, it could be days -- before there is a material risk of a fundamentally unnecessary default by a country like Spain or Italy which would be a financial catastrophe dragging the European banking system and North America with it. So they have to act now.”

Source : "New Italy PM fails to calm financial markets". "AM" with Sabra Lane, www.abc.net.au. November 17, 2011.
“The reason some crime writers have a chip on their shoulder about the label is because their good books are shelved beside books about nuns and birdwatchers and cats who solve crimes. Overseas, my books are reviewed alongside those of authors like Robert Stone and Don DeLillo, and I have to live and die by that comparison. They don't ghettoize crime writers in other countries, and of course they shouldn't.”

Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.

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