"In comparing these two writers, he [Samuel Johnson] used this expression: "that there was as great a difference between them as between a man who knew how a watch was made, and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate." This was a short and a figurative statement of his distinction between drawing characters of nature and characters only of manners, but I cannot help being of opinion, that the neat watches of Fielding are as well constructed as the large clocks of Richardson, and that his dial plates are brighter."

-- James Boswell

#Character Quotes #Men Quotes #Drawing Quotes

“Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad.”

Source : John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.103, Cambridge University Press
“I am grieved that these continuing stories are everyday matters swept away,”

Source : "Jordan Davis Documentary '3 1/2 Minutes' Heading to HBO" by Daniel Kreps, www.rollingstone.com. January 31, 2015.
“I'm jumping in right now. And I'm going to say that everybody I know has a 'day I met CM Punk story' and they're all 100% fabrication. It's all bullshit. Thank you.”
“I like the idea that neither makes any romantic move until their philosophies are aligned.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Obviously, everybody's favorite form of web content is more story with principal actors. But the economics of the web do not yet support.”
“Then there were things-- epic, terrible things-- that he didn't tell her but skirted around, like caressing the edges of a wound, hesitant, testing for pain.”
“The rich would do better with a smaller share of a rapidly growing economy then they're doing now with a large share of an economy that is barely growing at all.”
“I'm not a real social person - I'm shy - and a lot of the business is just social”

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