"A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Stories Quotes #Muscles Quotes #Wells Quotes

“To envision what will be, you must remove yourself from the constant concern for what already is.”

Source : Scott Belsky (2011). “Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality”, p.132, Penguin UK
“I understood the workmanlike quality of a good stand-up. They all have this. There's a technique for everything you do. But boy, it's tough, 'cause there ain't anybody else out there but you.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived. After all Number One, we're only mortal.”

Source : "Fictional character: Jean-Luc Picard". "Star Trek: Generations", www.imdb.com. 1994.
“Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that's beause it's all a chain, and a long time ago someone did the first bad thing, and that led someone else to do another bad thing, and so on. You know, like that game where you whisper a sentence into someone's ear, and that person whispers it to someone else, and it all comes out wrong in the end. But then again, maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.”
“You donâ€™t have to be half-naked to be successful. Just be talented.”
“My best training came from my father.”
“Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.”
“The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.”

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