"Speed kills colour... the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray."

-- Paul Morand

#Time Quotes #Stress Quotes #Speed Quotes

“The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.”

Source : In E. Anthony O Rare Don Marquis (1962) p. 354
“When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.”
“I think that we live in a time where it's easier to be suspicious of dedicated men and women, people dedicated to their craft, because the world around them inspires them to be lazy. It inspires them to be negative. It inspires them to be snarky.”
“The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.”
“In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.”
“You learn, right, a lot of people's problems - why they get upset, why they get down, why they turn to drink - is because they can't say one word and it's N-O, no.”
“If you are not in the red playroom of pain and pleasure, â€¦ shooting the movie is much like doing any other movie.”
“To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction.”

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