"You almost believe that you will never come to the end of a roll of tape; and when you do, there is a feeling, nearly, though very briefly, of shock and grief."

-- Nicholson Baker

#Life Quotes #Grief Quotes #Believe Quotes

“I choose my work very carefully, always for the script and the director, and I don't think that's going to change. My work is like a house. It's built on very strong poles.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“People think that there is so much money in tennis, but the reality is unless you're ranked in about the top 50 you don't earn much at all. It is hard to support yourself travelling the world, to be away from home most of the year and to pay for a coach to help you become a better player.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To truly try is to give all you have, when you have nothing left.”
“It is funny, but it strikes me that a person without anecdotes that they nurse while they live, and that survive them, are more likely to be utterly lost not only to history but the family following them. Of course this is the fate of most souls, reducing entire lives, no matter how vivid and wonderful, to those sad black names on withering family trees, with half a date dangling after and a question mark.”

Source : Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.14, Faber & Faber
“Our lives depend on recognizing that human cloning, like all forms of 'playing God,' is a moral, life-promoting endeavor.”
“You know why the game of golf is popular? Very easy, it's a great game.”

Source : Interview with Julius Mason, www.rydercup.com. September 14, 2004.
“conferences with open attendance are very important for the stimulation of young people or other people who are new in the field. ... The field of high-energy physics is, as you know, very strongly in the hands of a clique and it is hard for an outsider to enter.”

Source : "Drawing theories apart: the dispersion of Feynman diagrams in postwar physics" by David Kaiser, University of Chicago Press, (p. 336), 2005.
“Part of maintaining a thriving creative culture is giving people time and permission to play.”

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