"Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers."

-- Edward Abbey

#Book Quotes #Focus Quotes #Force Quotes

“There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.”
“The truth is we all get tired, we all get weary. In fact, if you never feel like giving up, then your dreams are too small. If you never feel like quitting, then you need to set some larger goals. When that pressure comes to get discouraged and to think about how you canâ€™t take it anymore, that is completely normal. Every person feels that way at times.”
“The spiritual experience isnâ€™t one of filling ourselves upâ€” with either religious or intellectual beliefsâ€”but of emptying ourselves so that we can experience what is, directly, unfiltered.”
“The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man.”
“Every year I try to make adjustments and learn.”
“A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word which has never before been spoken. The seedword is always so ordinary that hardly anyone perceives it. Classical odes grow from and or because, romantic lyrics from but and if. Immature verses expand a personal pronoun ad nauseam, the greatest works bring glory to a common verb. Good poems, therefore, are always close to banality, over which, however, they tower like precipices.”

Source : "Unlikely Stories, Mostly". Book by Alasdair Gray, 1983.
“We all get frustrated and we all get angry, especially being young. We're happy so quickly, we're mad so quickly, and everything is just flowing so fast.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I'd always tried not to worry about the size of the role or the size of the film.”

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