"I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence so I can hear the sound of the words."

-- Mohsin Hamid

#Writing Quotes #Silence Quotes #Needs Quotes

“In a fiction film, we know at some level we've suspended disbelief. In a documentary, we know that we're watching a drama unfold in the world because of the movie we're watching that is real. That has enormous stakes for the whole society, and we, by the act of watching, complete the story.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“Two things I take very seriously in life. My golf game and my relationship with God. Neither one is simple”
“All women are troublemakers who take the money their husbands need desperately for a new and better speaker, and selfishly squander it on things like shoes for the children, homogenized milk, or perhaps A SECOND DRESS!”
“The reason I love the sea I cannot explain - it's physical. When you dive you begin to feel like an angel. It's a liberation of your weight.”
“Practice is practice, chicken is chicken.”
“There's an old saying that God exists in your search for him. I just want you to understand that I ain't looking.”

Source : "Leslie Nielsen: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 29, 2010.
“The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly--we only think it does. The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target takes only a split second, but it is a skill many years in the making. So it is with a life, anyone's life.”
“Of all the names Polygamy went by (so as not to exasperate the Gentile population and even some of the wives of the members' own bosoms any more than necessary) -- such as Pluralism, Plural or Celestial Wedlock, the Principle, the Doctrine, the New Covenant and the Gospel Dispensation of the Meridian of Consummate Time -- the latter was thought to be the least like waving a red flag in front of a bull. But as it was hard to remember and did not make instant or any other kind of sense, it was not much used.”

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