"Particularly when you're dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their attention, they are used to, by their rank, of having their own way and doing their own thing and when it's necessary to all work together on something, sometimes you have to hit the mule between the eyes of the two by four to get its attention."

-- Norman Schwarzkopf

#Eye Quotes #Two Quotes #People Quotes

“I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.”
“My first cut is always pretty similar to the final cut.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“There's never a lot of Brazillian football played in these games.”
“He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington”
“Everything that can happen, does. That's quantum mechanics. But this does not mean everything happens. The rest of physics is about describing what can happen and what can't.”
“I'm definitely excited by big ideas, both in what I write and what I read. Most days, reality is so mind-numbingly dull that I don't understand why someone would write strictly realistic stories, given the almost limitless freedom fiction provides. I don't see the point of making believe if you're not going to actually make believe: hang your ass out in the wind, push at every boundary, make almost unreasonable demands on your reader's willingness to suspend disbelief. This is dangerous, and prone to failure, but that's part of what makes it fun.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to contruct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the otherslike a Platonic archetype, an object whose virtues are not diminished by the passage of time.”
“I think a mantra I always told myself is, "No matter how many times somebody pitches the ball at you, if you swing every time, eventually one of them is going to connect." Being yourself and persistence are two things that became my daily mantras, I suppose.”

Source : Interview with Robert Pattinson, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 20, 2015.

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