"Why be a dumb dud? Do your friends shun you? Do people cross the street when they see you approaching? Do they run up the steps of strange houses, pretend they live there and force their way into the hall while you are passing by? If this is the sort of person you are, you must avail yourself today of this new service. Otherwise, you might as well be dead."

-- Flann O'Brien

#Running Quotes #Passing By Quotes #People Quotes

“Darwin and his successors have railed against the fallacy of confusing the current utility of a trait with the reason the trait evolved. For example, Darwin argued that skull sutures in mammals did not evolve because they facilitate live birth; the sutures were in place well before live birth evolved. Checking the chronological order in which different traits evolved in a lineage is one way to test an adaptive hypothesis; the fact of common ancestry is what makes that checking possible.”
“Oprah's got good politics, she's got a good heart, and she'll have us all up Jazzercising at six in the morning. This cannot be a bad thing, and reading a book while we're Jazzercising. So America would be better off if Oprah were president.”
“Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration.”
“But now my problems had been set loose. They could be anywhere at any time and I was just like everyone else I knew: almost positive that there was something profoundly and undiagnosably wrong with me.”
“I never really did a western western.”
“Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could.”
“Writing a first novel takes so much effort, with such little promise of result or reward, that it must necessarily be a labor of love bordering on madness.”

Source : "Know thy subject" by Steven Saylor, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2002.
“If you're not falling, you're not training hard enough.”

Source : Interview with Nicki Gostin, MSNBC, March 11, 2005.

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