"False humility is more insulting than open pride!"

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Source : Brandon Mull (2008). “Rise of the Evening Star”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

Brandon Mull

#Humility Quotes #Pride Quotes #Insulting Quotes

“Theres a lot of speculation on what the zombie apocalypse thing means. I have a feeling that its kind of an expression of our subconscious fears. I think we know that something big and impossible - some enormous crash, equalizing crash, whatever - may be coming around the corner.”

Source : "Mark Pellegrino of 'Being Human' gets 'Lost' in gods, monsters". Interview with Aaron Sagers, geekout.blogs.cnn.com. February 23, 2012.
“You haven't seen untidiness until you've seen a room where gravity has failed twice in different directions.”

Source : Michael Marshall Smith (2010). “Only Forward (Voyager Classics)”, p.37, HarperCollins UK
“There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success.”
“Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.”

Source : Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1973). “Matisse on art”
“There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events.”
“Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.”
“[The Internet] is a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.”
“You'll go into a fancy hotel and you'll hear this track where someone has sampled 30 seconds of a really good song. Your ear picks it up and you get excited but then it goes into some monotone thing. The Buddha Bar stuff annoys me. I don't need to be on a beach and hear this stuff through little speakers, but people think it creates a "cool vibe".”

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