"When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic," I said. "When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get to call it impressive or heroic."

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Jim Butcher

#Stupid Quotes #Heroic Quotes #Said Quotes

“To me, art supplies are always okay to buy.”
“If Plutarch is the essayist I want to believe he is, he would want us all to sit in his chair.”
“By 1899, we had learned to tame the darkness but not the Texas heat.”

Source : Jacqueline Kelly (2009). “The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate”, p.1, Macmillan
“All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.”
“Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I didn't come to Nashville to put on a cowboy hat and pretend to be a country singer. My attraction to Nashville as Music City is the variety and flexibility: the fact that there's so many musicians at your disposal, so many amazing studios and talented people that you can draw from. ... I try to be myself, but at the same time I'm learning a lot, and I'm pulling from not only from the well of inspiration that I'm getting from Nashville, but I'm pulling from my roots.”
“The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things, but by contemplating the floating of things which floated naturally, and then intelligently asking why they did so.”

Source : Thomas Troward (2007). “The Edinburgh and Dore Lectures on Mental Science”, p.69, Cosimo, Inc.
“Writing is a way of living other lives. It is a way of expanding your life. It's not actually living a different life, it just means that you're hungry for life. There are so many things you want to do.”

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