"I don't want people poking around in my private stuff. They've no business in it. My work is what I give to people, that's my job, and that's where it stops."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Brendan Gleeson

#Jobs Quotes #People Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light it with words.”
“Lift up your eyes. The heavenly Father waits to bless you - in inconceivable ways to make your life what you never dreamed it could be.”

Source : Anne Ortlund (2001). “My Sacrifice His Fire: Weekday Readings for Women”, p.25, iUniverse
“Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.”

Source : Lady Murasaki, Murasaki Shikibu, Arthur Waley (2000). “The Tale of Genji”, p.5, Courier Corporation
“You know your path, child, now follow it.”
“Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read.”
“He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.”
“This is why alchemy exists," the boy said. "So that everyone will search for his treasure, find it, and then want to be better than he was in his former life. Lead will play its role until the world has no further need for lead; and then lead will have to turn itself into gold. That's what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”
“Our task as we grow older in a rapidly advancing science, is to retain the capacity of joy in discoveries which correct older ideas, and to learn from our pupils as we teach them.”

Source : Hans Zinsser (1940). “As I Remember Him”

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