"The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage."

-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Men Quotes #Ambitious Quotes #Becoming Quotes

“Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.”
“I think my parents were really smart parents. I think they were, actually, pretty progressive for the time. The one thing that they really wanted me to know is what makes me tick, what I am about, how I approach life. And I think what my parents really wanted for me was for me to be who I am.”
“I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.”

Source : "The naked and the living" by Peter Conrad, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2002.
“The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work.”

Source : Biography/ Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If the expansion of the space of the universe is uniform in all directions, an observer located in anyone of the galaxies will see all other galaxies running away from him at velocities proportional to their distances from the observer.”

Source : George Gamow (2012). “The Creation of the Universe”, p.21, Courier Corporation
“[Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it.”
“Saying goodbye to Nina is both bittersweet and beautiful. After six-plus years together, the entire cast and crew of The Vampire Diaries has reached a level of closeness that I don't think any of us ever expected. Nina is excited to spread her wings, get some rest, travel the world and also take it by storm, and we support her a thousand-fold. We will miss Nina and the four hundred characters she played, but we look forward to the insane and exciting challenge of continuing to tell stories of our Salvatore Brothers and our much-loved and gifted ensemble.”

Source : "Vampire Diaries: Nina Dobrev Won't Return for Season 7" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. April 6, 2015.
“Paint what you see, not what you know.”

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