"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it."

-- Mark Twain

#Inspirational Quotes #Running Quotes #Fun Quotes

“There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.”
“If you haven't failed, you're not trying hard enough.”

Source : Jennifer Crusie (2010). “Trust Me on This”, p.53, Bantam
“I'll tell you right now. I'm for prayer in school.”
“I like the light that comes off metal shutters at siesta time in the summer, having a break from driving in the shops at motorway services, the odour of petrol at petrol stations, rolling down little slopes. I hate it when you tread in a puddle and the water soaks your socks.”

Source : "Here's looking at you, kid" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2001.
“If you want to be a dear old lady at seventy you have to begin early, say about seventeen.”
“People who say that violence doesn't accomplish anything have not read history. I don't celebrate that reality, but there you have it.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“You know that you're going to invest so much of your time on a movie when you direct it that it's something that just really has to jump out at you and pull at your heart, and nothing has.”
“I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.”

Source : J. M. Coetzee (1980). “Waiting for the Barbarians”, Penguin Group USA

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