"Although the vast majority of walkers never even think of using a walking staff, I unhesitatingly include it among the foundations of the house that travels on my back."

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Source : Colin Fletcher, Chip Rawlins (2015). “The Complete Walker IV”, p.146, Knopf

Colin Fletcher

#Thinking Quotes #House Quotes #Foundation Quotes

“Keep on listening & tapping your feet.”
“But alas for the dreams that round us play! / For the plans of mortal making! / And alas for the false and fickle day / That looked so fair at waking!”

Source : Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”
“We're a little bit competitive and we want to make sure we're on the top. We're all working for the same goal as all these bands, we want to come out on top and I think we have accomplished that in a lot of ways. You want to keep improving yourselves and getting better at what you do.”

Source : Source: puregrainaudio.com
“There is some pressure when you are a woman doing what I do that you must support all other women unconditionally, no matter what they're projecting, or writing, or producing, or putting forth as their art. I think that's equally arbitrary and random and unfair, and kind of sexist. The secretly sexist way. I have really high standards for what I think is funny. I have that for everything, and I think it would be disingenuous of me to blanket-ly love everything a woman has produced simply to make a statement that we're all in this together.”
“Don't Stop when you are Tired. Stop When You are Done.”
“I remember going with my mom to a random garage sale as a kid and thinking what a cool treasure hunt that whole world was. Only to transition as an adult to think, 'What a gross place that really is.'”
“Ultimately, theatre takes place in the minds of the audience: they all imagine the same thing at the same time.”

Source : "Simon McBurney: 'I'm going to die'" by Simon McBurney, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2009.
“The final words of a domestic bully: If you leave me now furious angels will descend upon you and bring you back to me.”

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