"To know a little of anything gives neither satisfaction nor credit, but often brings disgrace or ridicule."

-- Lord Chesterfield

#Knowledge Quotes #Giving Quotes #Credit Quotes

“Wedding fever is one of the scariest diseases I have ever seen.”
“I think of someone like Mariah Carey as a singer.”

Source : Designer Magazine Interview, designermagazine.tripod.com.
“I am able to apply certain things to my craft that maybe other comedians don't, because I'm a devotee.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I never consciously set out to be an actor. I just kind of did whatever acting I could do.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Sometimes people run out and read a lot of books, but they don't absorb anything from them. They want to read the next popular book.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.”

Source : Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.146, Open Road Media
“I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.”
“You're a writer. Make it up.”

Source : David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.11, Penguin

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