"You can't do such a lot and do it all so well and have much time left for the ordinary human feelings."

-- Patricia Wentworth

#Perfection Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“One of the main reasons wealth makes people unhappy is that it gives them too much control over what they experience. They try to translate their own fantasies into reality instead of tasting what reality itself has to offer.”

Source : Philip Elliot Slater (1980). “Wealth Addiction”, Dutton Adult
“in my skimmings over fiction I cannot recall any writer so continuously implicated in his own work as George Moore.”
“Then time seemed to stop, or rather to lose its directional urgency of movement; it became a place in the open where one stood rather than a low, narrow corridor down which one was hurried.”

Source : Fritz Leiber (1964). “The wanderer”
“Far, far away something made a single ghostly howl, like a banshee in the dark.”
“I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to give me time to rest. But I couldn't sleep. I couldn't do anything.”
“It is Patrick the Legend, of course, who is most engaging and comes to us as something of a happy Celtic party monster.”

Source : "Patrick, We Hardly Knew Ye". Chicago Tribune Article, articles.chicagotribune.com. March 14, 1997.
“Being injured is something that happens in this sport. Anybody who gets into it understands that.”
“I appreciate the additional additives and preservatives that help sell a project, but I'm sticking to what works best for me. I gotta sell the album live on stage and make people believe in the songs.”

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

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