"For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be needed except courage. The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years."

-- George Orwell

#Running Quotes #Writing Quotes #Past Quotes

“While the world changes, the cross stands firm.”
“The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces.”

Source : Howard Staunton (1847). “The chess-player's handbook”, p.24
“There has been a fundamental paradigm shift. Today's customer expectations are: If i can imagine it, it simply has to be there; if not, I'll invent it myself'”
“Ideal relationship is based on giving.”
“At war a Russian man puts on a white shirt. He may live in sin, but he dies like a saint.”

Source : Vasily Grossman (2010). “A Writer At War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945”, p.95, Random House
“I never want to be told, "Hey, this is what you do best, and this is the only thing you're going to do." And there are other people that are put into that box. Or unable to navigate through all the different genres. Some people insist on being a tough guy even though it's not happening. People only want to see them in leading romantic roles. Yet they continue to try and force something that doesn't feel organic to people.”
“Spartan is about this elite unit of the armed forces named the Delta Force. I play a protege of Val Kilmer's character, and he kind of gives me a hard time.”
“Common integration is only the memory of differentiation... The different artifices by which integration is effected, are changes, not from the known to the unknown, but from forms in which memory does not serve us to those in which it does.”

Source : "Modern Computer Algebra". Book by Joachim von zur Gathen, April 25, 2013.

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