"Knowledge is like the carrot, few know by looking at the green top that the best part, the orange part, is there. Like the carrot, if you don't work for it, it will wither away and rot. And finally, like the carrot, there are a great many donkeys and jackasses that are associated with it."

-- Nasreddin

#Orange Quotes #Green Quotes #Great Men Quotes

“You can't mine coal without machine guns.”
“Freedom is a new religion, the religion of our time.”
“There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire.”

Source : moss hart (1959). “act one”
“I just want to work hard. I love that feeling.”

Source : "Jenny Slate and Nick Kroll Q&A: ‘My Blind Brother’ Stars Dig Deep On Complicated Characters You Can’t Help But Root For". Interview with Steve Greene, www.indiewire.com. September 23, 2016.
“Most people who think they can't live up to the great painters of the past, often times have a group of people they think they're better than.”

Source : Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.
“The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.”

Source : Tanith Lee (2016). “Death's Master”, p.20, Penguin
“What great comedians, great comic writers, great comic actors do is that they just read the headlines with the right eyebrow position and it's funny.”
“You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.”

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