"It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage."

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George William Curtis

#Journey Quotes #Achievement Quotes #Sailing Quotes

“Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view.”
“I don't need the Prince Charming to have my own happy ending.”

Source : "Katy Perry dismisses her relationship with Rob Ackroyd as 'not serious' (here's to hoping he already knew that)" by Rachael Wheeler, www.mirror.co.uk. July 6, 2012.
“The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed”

Source : Anita Roddick, Cheryl Rickman (2005). “The Small Business Start-up Workbook: A step-by-step guide to starting the business you've dreamed of”, p.227, Hachette UK
“There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality”
“As for comics, one has only to turn to the characteristic output of Marvel Comics, for the period from about 1961 to about 1975, to find not an expression of base and cynical impulses but of good, old-fashioned liberal humanism of a kind that may strike us today, God help us, as quaint, but which nevertheless appealed, in story after story, to ideals such as tolerance, technological optimism, and self-sacrifice for the benefit of others.”
“I can play the guitar and the keys and the drums. I'm not brilliant at any of them. I can sing too. Some of my friends are proper musicians but I'm a song-writer. I write songs.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“Everybody else goes out and plays a show as if it's their album, which is boring. I'd rather sit at home and listen to the album, because I hate to be in a smoke-filled, loud room - that's not enjoyable for me at all...I always look up to guys who can sit and do dinner music...they're singing in tune and playing somebody else's music, and I don't think I could do that...it's the shittiest job in the world.”
“He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels”

Source : Henri Michaux (1994). “Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984”, p.176, Univ of California Press

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