"I didn't do anything as active as deciding that I wanted to be a writer. For one thing, I didn't feel like I was the final authority on whether or not I was anything like a writer. (I'm a timid soul.) I just kept writing stories, because becoming a veterinarian seemed as if it involved too much dissection."

-- Kelly Link

#Writing Quotes #Soul Quotes #Finals Quotes

“Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it be without absurdity supposed able to do them; which yet are works very gross and rude, very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree.”

Source : Isaac Barrow (1859). “The theological works: In 9 vols. Ed. ... by Alexander Napier”, p.185
“Personally, I need a high level of physical fitness in order to feel at ease.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My music lives because of real players.”

Source : "Golden Globe Nominee Abel Korzeniowski Talks Madonna, ‘W.E.,’ Score" by Bill Desowitz, www.indiewire.com. January 11, 2012.
“Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives, neighbors, or the community--are more likely to be overburdened by the demands of their babies and to be unable to respond to them adequately. Parents who experience severe poverty or economic insecurity, who cannot satisfy their own basic needs, are likely to have difficulty in responding to their children's needs.”
“I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring, I will step into the pool.”
“Mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered.”
“There's no perfect [date]. There's no agenda which has to be fulfilled. So really it's about the company and how well you get along.”
“The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin.”

Source : Dick Francis (2010). “Banker”, p.16, Penguin

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