"Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die."

-- Gil Scott-Heron

#Nature Quotes #Men Quotes #Lakes Quotes

“Chefs work with food, artists with oil paint, programmers with code.”
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me.”
“I don't do anything but sleep, when I'm not working. I have no life. I'm no fun. All I want to do is sleep and get ready for the next day. It's awesome.”

Source : "Maggie Q Interview NIKITA". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 26, 2010.
“The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.”
“Everything begins only to end. The moment you were born you began to die. That's how it is with everything.”

Source : Janne Teller, Martin Aitken (2012). “Nothing”, p.8, Simon and Schuster
“Frustration is a very positive sign. It means that the solution to your problem is within range, but what you're currently doing isn't working, and you need to change your approach in order to achieve your goal.”
“The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.”
“The Republicans find their faith imperiled by Barney Frank's marriage. There is always a shadow on the wall, a monster in the closet, a mysterious rustling in the teeming underbrush of the conservative Id.”

Source : "The Lonely War Of Marlin Stutzman" by Charlie Pierce, www.esquire.com. October 3, 2013.

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