"Lovely chatting with you, darling, but I've got to run. Face it, you're always more content when you're chasing me than when you have me locked up. I think we're going to have a lot of fun."

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Source : Chelsea Cain (2015). “The Archie Sheridan and Gretchen Lowell Series”, p.723, Macmillan

Chelsea Cain

#Running Quotes #Fun Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I havenâ€™t had trouble with writerâ€™s block. I think itâ€™s because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, clichÃ©d writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesnâ€™t have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments. It seems writerâ€™s block is often a dislike of writing badly and waiting for writing better to happen.”
“If you keep saying it the way it really is, eventually your word is law in the universe.”
“What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.”

Source : "xkcd's Randall Munroe Defeats The Robot Apocalypse" by Alex Knapp, www.forbes.com. August 2, 2012.
“My objective was to hurt the other fighters. I wanted to hurt them. I wanted to be merciless. Man, I was a wild thing. It's kind of a drug, a rush.”
“Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.”
“A good many people think as I do. If they like my work they are creative . . . or they are crazy.”

Source : "Alien Artist H.R. Giger Passes Away at Age 74" by B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. May 13, 2014.
“Be creative, be useful, be practical, be generous and finish big”

Source : Lisa Genova (2011). “Lisa Genova Box Set: Still Alice and Left Neglected”, p.322, Simon and Schuster
“Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. My own thoughts are that parenting is very personal. And we all feel enormous insecurity about parenting. What are they going to think of us 20 years down the line?”

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