"It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards."

-- Antony Beevor

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Years Quotes

“What I remember most are some of the guys in the background - who they were and what kind of times we had during those days on the set. I remember staying at Mikes house in Hollywood when we first started filming the series. It was the upper story of a two-story building on a little hillside. Mikes wife, Phyllis, was wonderful. Mike and I laughed a lot and played music together. I remember that time very fondly.”
“Humans are not physically normal in the absence of hard physical effort.”
“Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.”
“Technology is basically neutral. It's kind of like a hammer. The hammer doesn't care whether you use it to build a house, or whether a torturer uses it to crush somebody's skull.”
“The moment I decided to follow instead of lead, I discovered the joys of becoming part of a small child's world.”
“Even your most talented employees have room for growth in some area, and you're doing your employee a disservice if the sum of your review is: 'You're great!' No matter how talented the employee, think of ways he could grow towards the position he might want to hold two, five, or 10 years down the line.”
“I sat there and forgot and forgot, until what remained was the river that went by and I who watched. On the river the heat mirages danced with each other and then they danced through each other and then they joined hands and danced around each other. Eventually the water joined the river, and there was only one of us. I believe it was the river.”

Source : Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.61, University of Chicago Press
“The law of flying was not discovered by the contemplation of things staying on the ground.”

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