"They say night's beauties fade at dawn, and the children of wine are oft disowned in the morning light."

-- George R. R. Martin

#Morning Quotes #Children Quotes #Wine Quotes

“If you do a great job in one thing, people look at you that way and it's hard to break out of that.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.”
“People think I'm crazy to put myself through such torture, though I would argue otherwise. Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness. Dostoyevsky had it right: 'Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.' Never are my senses more engaged than when the pain sets in. There is a magic in misery. Just ask any runner.”

Source : "Ultramarathon Man". Book by Dean Karnazes, March 17, 2005.
“What we need to do now is recognize that it is the sum total of human ingenuity that is responsible for the epidemics of chronic disease. Throughout most of human history, calories were scarce and hard to get, and physical activity unavoidable. Calories are now abundant, and physical activity is hard to get. We took an unstable, uncertain food supply and fixed it. What now passes as exercise and requires specialized footwear used to be called "survival." You had to do it. Now you never have to do it. We solved it too well. Now we don't need our muscles for anything.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it.”
“When you retire you want to get as far away as possible from the game for a couple of years.”
“I have been determined for the past couple of years to move away from all those Holiday programmes.”
“Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together, it is also a fundamental way of being in a community. It manifests the willingness to live in a collaborative way. This means that a future can be created without having to force or sell it or barter for it. When we believe that barter or subtle coercion is necessary, we are operating out of a context of scarcity and self-interest, the core currencies of the economist.”

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