"Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you."

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Terry Pratchett

#Travel Quotes #Adventure Quotes #Sleep Quotes

“Not that I have any little kids running around I need to keep away from the guns. I had any kids I'd get rid of the guns. Nothing more dangerous to the life of a child than a house full of firearms. Nothing more dangerous except maybe a parent.”

Source : Charlie Huston (2007). “Already Dead: A Novel”, p.33, Del Rey
“With technology, we can achieve universal access to secondary education within a generation.”
“I don't want to do television. A TV show sitcom? I don't even watch TV.”
“Doing too much for others (often at their own expense), many persons are more 'human doings' than human beings.”

Source : Louise Hart (1994). “On the Wings of Self-esteem: A Companion for Personal Transformation”
“That was what made them so hilarious and unafraid. That was the strength of the Nazis. [...] They understood God better than anyone. They knew how to make Him stay away.”
“I feel like an outsider sometimes. Sometimes being more public makes me feel uncomfortable. I'll have people asking me for autographs in Thailand and I'll ask if they've seen my films and they'll say, "No, but I know who you are and I like the way you look - I like the skinhead look."”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.”
“There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act. We surrender to sleep, but in the way that the master entrusts himself to the slave who serves him.”

Source : Maurice Blanchot (2015). “The Space of Literature”, p.264, U of Nebraska Press

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