"I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmostphere of tepid scepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary."

-- Joseph Conrad

#Victory Quotes #Desire Quotes #Belief Quotes

“ATLANTA NIGHTS: I haven't been this stunned since my colonoscopy.”
“The death of Walt Disney is a loss to all the people of the world. In everything he did, Walt had an intuitive way of reaching out and touching the hearts and mind of young and old alike. His entertainment was an international language. For more than 40 years, people have looked to Walt Disney for the finest quality in family entertainment. There is no way to replace Walt Disney. He was an extraordinary man. Perhaps there will never be another like him… The world will always be a better place because Walt Disney was its master showman.”
“I like creating beauty out of scary things.”

Source : "Claire Boucher Mines Beauty From the Dark Side" by Laura M. Holson, www.nytimes.com. March 7, 2012.
“I don't use a lint brush or anything, and I don't iron, but I could easily pick lint off of someone else.”
“I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.”
“Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.”
“People forget what they want to forget.”
“One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.”

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