"Everybody's got a habit."

--

Lillian Hellman

“Of course, success is a relative term. It can be something completely different from winning the German championship eight times or making millions.”

Source : "'Goalkeepers Need an Element of Insanity'". Interview with Lothar Gorris and Dirk Kurbjuweit, www.spiegel.de. May 15, 2008.
“A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me.”
“And what do you think will happen to you when you find life is just too good to be left alone? You'll start living it.”
“Imaginations blossom amidst memories. One judiciously separates them - but is there really any point in that? Doesn't truth suffer when one amputates it from its context of dreams?”
“May gratitude to God permeate my entire life.”
“We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That is your bed, and it is a good bed, and you must make it and you must make it well. Or: Today is the day of the meatloaf. The meatloaf is swell. It is swell but when it is gone the not-having meatloaf will be tragic and the meatloaf man will not come anymore.”

Source : Tobias Wolff (2004). “Old School”, p.14, Vintage
“So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures political power.”

Source : Frederick Jackson Turner (2012). “Shaping the American Character: The Significance of the Frontier in American History”, p.35, Now and Then Reader LLC
“Nuclear weapons can be dismantled, but they cannot be uninvented.”

Source : Martin Rees (2009). “Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning”, p.11, Hachette UK

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