"Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing."

-- Hilaire Belloc

#Writing Quotes #Empty Quotes #Worst Quotes

“You've got to know business before you go to show business.”
“But to write - that is grief and labor; and to read what one has written - how unlike the story as one saw it; how dull, how spirtless - that is enough to send one weeping to bed.”
“When you walk around, your vision system is processing a whole bunch of signals in milliseconds and judging that a visual object is a wall, or an imminent cliff, or a car heading towards you. This might be disturbing to a lot of people, but some of those guesses are errors.”
“You're always under the microscope, and you don't know which mission you're going to get. It's a surprise.”

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“It takes only five minutes to look nice before you go out.”
“We knew it was coming but there were some rumors of a possible 50 basis point cut (a half a percentage point) and every time that happens it sets us up for disappointments. The reality is a very large majority of people don't know how to react to this so they're taking their cue from the market. It's really indecision.”
“Wilderness appealed to those bored or disgusted with man and his works. It not only offered an escape from society but also was an ideal stage for the Romantic individual to exercise the cult that he frequently made of his own soul. The solitude and total freedom of the wilderness created a perfect setting for either melancholy or exultation.”

Source : Roderick Nash (2001). “Wilderness and the American Mind”, p.47, Yale University Press
“There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined.”

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