"One does have to learn to travel with a degree of humility and that reflected in writing and personality."

-- John Gimlette

#Writing Quotes #Humility Quotes #Personality Quotes

“I give as much as I can, and it's up to someone else to turn it into a movie. Good luck to you!”
“It feels great to have your own views reflected back to you, and you feel so right, but actually it's very dangerous. Because to make good decisions, you need to have a clear view of what all the options are.”

Source : "Eli Pariser: What Search Engines Are Hiding From Us". "KPBS Midday Edition" with Maureen Cavanaugh, www.kpbs.org. May 23, 2011.
“Oregon is demure and lovely, and it ought to play a little hard to get. And I think you'll be just as sick as I am if you find it is nothing but a hungry hussy , throwing herself at every stinking smokestack that's offered.”
“The first commandment for every good explorer is that an expedition has two points: the point of departure and the point of arrival. If your intention is to make the second theoretical point coincide with the actual point of arrival, don't think about the means -- because the journey is a virtual space that finishes when it finishes, and there are as many means as there are different ways of 'finishing.' That is to say, the means are endless.”
“It costs the same to send a person to prison or to Harvard. The difference is the curriculum.”
“All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood.”
“Gratefulness is that fullness of life for which we are all thirsting.”
“I had you pictured dead in a pool of blood in front of the fireplace. And now you show up alive, and I want to kill you myself. (Zack)”

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