"My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant."

-- Hilary Mantel

#Ambition Quotes #Boys Quotes #Knights Quotes

“People can look at me any way they want to. If somebody meets me and hangs out with me, they can see what kind person I am. I can't change for people.”
“More immediately, I'm currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. That's about as far as I want to go in commenting on current work.”
“The typical entrepreneur is no longer the bold and tireless man of Marshall, or the sly and rapacious Moneybags of Marx, but a mass of inert shareholders, indistinguishable from rentiers, who employ salaried managers to run their concerns.”
“Salsa is a phenomenal way to stay fit, have a great time with your friends and listen to great music.”

Source : Source: www.usmagazine.com
“FOAM OF THE DAZE is a novel like no other, a sexy, innocent, smart and sweet cartoon of a world which then begins, little by little, to bleed real blood until, in the end, the blood turns out to be our own. I read it nearly thirty years ago in its previous incarnation as Mood Indigo and I loved it then; it's still one of my favorite books in the whole world”
“In the final analysis, despite our diversity, there is only one type of vegan -- a person who is committed to and practices a reverence and respect for all life.”

Source : Joanne Stepaniak (2000). “Being Vegan”, McGraw Hill Professional
“And I wasn't convinced that I was the most talented person in the world.”
“There is, however, in art another kind of external similarity which is founded on a fundamental truth. When there is a similarity of inner tendency in the whole moral and spiritual atmosphere, a similarity of ideals, at first closely pursued but later lost to sight, a similarity in the inner feeling of any one period to that of another, the logical result will be a revival of the external forms which served to express those inner feelings in an earlier age.”

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