"I'm a firm believer that lighting affects mood, and twinkly lights on strings bring something magical to occasions ranging from concerts to weddings, though I'm fond of using them as year-round home decor. There's a reason why they're sometimes called fairy lights. When the night is right, there aren't any strings at all."

-- Erin Morgenstern

#Home Quotes #Night Quotes #Light Quotes

“There's a complete difference between training for a specific event and goal and just training.”
“Start listening to what you say. Are your comments and ideas negative? You aren't going become positive if you always say negative things. Do you hear yourself say"I could never do that","I never have any luck","I never get things right". Wow - that's negative self-talk! Try saying"I am going to do that","I am so lucky""I always try to get things right". Can you hear how much better that sounds?”
“I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version of the erotic full of nervous tension which animates the sensuality, and also Zimroth's feeling for words, compressed, ironic, withholding, but also 'asking for it . . . the siege, the thrill, the battle fatigue.' A profoundly urban book, of harsh memory and fantasy, set in harsher reality.”
“You've got to remember, the older you get the slower you get. I've seen a lot of players get old ... if I can have a good season in 1972 and come back with another good one, well, that's different. I might not quit. But two bad ones back to back and staying home would be written on the wall.”
“As I've been acting since I was young it's taught me to give a good speech, and, though I say so myself, I did it pretty well.”

Source : "New wonder kid on the block" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2009.
“I invest in anything that Bernanke can't destroy including Gold, canned beans, bottled water and flashlight batteries....”
“As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.”
“For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.”

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