"Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains."

-- Alain de Botton

#Moving Quotes #Journey Quotes #Ships Quotes

“Give up being perfect for being authentic. Be who you are. Love who you are. Others will too.”

Source : FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Jan 20, 2015
“I am a technophile, so there is no such thing as a first draft. The first draft plunges on, and about a quarter of the way through it I realise I'm doing things wrong, so I start rewriting it. What you call the first draft becomes rather like a caterpillar; it is progressing fairly slowly, but there is movement up and down its whole length, the whole story is being changed. I call this draft zero, telling myself how the story is supposed to go.”
“I think there are some things in music that work and don't work. That's learned from counterpoint and rhythm and theory, and they don't work if you don't want them to work.”
“You want to know, but are afraid to ask, whether or not I found someone. If there could be anyone to fill that hole in my heart after I lost him. I did. "Life is futile," says my new therapist, Michaela, "and no one gets out of it alive. There is only love.”
“I don't think any of my kids would have a good word to say about me. I think they deny that they even know me. At school, they pretend they are Anton du Beke's kids.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You smoke a joint and you're likely to kill your brother.”
“I just think that it's such a good show and timeless and still very funny, and that just makes me happy to have that whole first season in one concentrated space for people to enjoy so that it's not hit and miss trying to find it in syndication always.”
“In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William II in an insane asylum.”

Source : Kelly Miller (1919). “Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights”

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