"For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it."

-- Patrick O'Brian

#Men Quotes #White Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.”

Source : Robert Burton (1857). “The Anatomy of melancholy”, p.366
“I think we're returning to more of the original vibration of music and creativity through the removal of this distortion called the music industry. That's where we're heading. And it'll cut out a lot of music if people ever expected to make money.”
“Angels are not merely forms of extraterrestrial intelligence. They are forms of extra-cosmic intelligence.”
“No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted. The last 25 years of research show that reading aloud to a child is the oldest, cheapest and must successful method of instilling that desire. Shooting baskets with a child creates a basketball player; reading to a child creates a reader.”
“We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic.”
“What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the rest of the year.”
“At the Cardiff World Cup I really would like to make the final. The favorites are still Peter, Daniele or Vavra, but I will try to do my best in order to be closest as possible to these athletes.”
“I try to see the whole woman,' Eddie said to Hannah. 'Of course I recognize that she's old, but there are photographs - or the equivalent of photographs in one's imagination of anyone's life. A whole life, I mean. I can picture her when she was much younger than I am - because there are always gestures and expressions that are ingrained, ageless. An old woman doesn't see herself as an old woman, and neither do I. I try to see her her whole life in her. There's something so moving about someone's whole life.”

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