"I love it when the dark bottle of night spills out, and the Moon writes in chalk about us."

-- John J. Geddes

#Writing Quotes #Dark Quotes #Moon Quotes

“I hate it when, by page 30, I know what the lead's going to do and then what the bad guy's gonna do. Mostly it's just scripts by the numbers where nothing's surprising, nothing's interesting.”
“After you finish the first 90% of a project, you have to finish the other 90%.”
“Here is how it is for women. We become our schedules. That starts to feel good. Then it starts to feel necessary. Then it starts to feel like everything.”

Source : Jacquelyn Mitchard (1999). “The Rest of Us: Dispatches from the Mother Ship”, p.174, Penguin
“... you watch Jimi Hendrix literally reinvent the instrument. He was playing from somewhere else. He was really a kind of hybrid, and I can't even begin to imagine where he came from”
“The buddha-dharma does not invite us to dabble in abstract notions. Rather, the task it presents us with is to attend to what we actually experience, right in this moment. You don't have to look "over there." You don't have to figure anything out. You don't have to acquire anything. And you don't have to run off to Tibet, or Japan, or anywhere else. You wake up right here. In fact, you can only wake up right here. So you don't have to do the long search, the frantic chase, the painful quest. You're already right where you need to be.”
“Going to the moon is not a matter of physics but of economics.”

Source : "Future: A Recent History". Book by Lawrence R. Samuel, p. 92, June 2009.
“Phychical pain is more easily borne than physical; and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose the former.”
“Scandal has a thousand stringers; good news doesn't know the editor's phone number.”

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