"In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring."

-- Jules Renard

#Writing Quotes #Oxen Quotes #Toil Quotes

“(Don) Sutton lost thirteen games in a row without winning a ballgame.”
“For us the mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had found the freedom for which we were blindly groping and which was as necessary to us as bread.”

Source : Maurice Herzog (2011). “Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak”, p.400, Open Road Media
“If you have a big challenge today, that just means you have a big destiny.”
“You listen to your favorite song just until you're almost getting sick of it, and then it's so fun to rediscover it after a couple of months.”

Source : "Anna Kendrick Talks WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING, GET A JOB, END OF WATCH, and Her Desire to Play More Stoners". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 18, 2012.
“I feel more comfortable confidence-wise. You get to the NHL, and you're nervous about trying things. With experience, you're not as afraid of being creative.”
“To fail to love is not to exist at all.”
“I still get very high and very low in life. Daily. But I've finally accepted the fact that sensitive is just how I was made, that I don't have to hide it and I don't have to fix it. I'm not broken.”
“Yes, I have known Roger Clemens for a long time.”

Source : "Mindy McCready Admits to Relationship with Roger Clemens" by Eileen Finan, people.com. April 29, 2008.

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