"If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure."

-- H. G. Wells

#Glimpse Quotes #World Quotes #Leisure Quotes

“Every time another review comes out I let out a deep breath.”
“I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.”
“I want a girl who doesn't know that she's beautiful, so i have an excuse to let her know all the time”
“There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others”
“I think my goal was just to do comedy, honestly. It still is. Whatever form that took or takes, it doesn't matter.”

Source : Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 13, 2013.
“If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.”

Source : Asne Seierstad (2009). “A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal”, p.154, Hachette UK
“I think I'm comfortable making myself, or my speaker, larger than life if I can then cut myself off at the ankles. The way, in "My Major Prize," the speaker does this drippy performance of sadness and poetry for some unnamed prize committee, only he lets us know that it's all a wry game.”
“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Anger is only one letter short of danger. If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; if he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses much more; he who loses faith, loses all.”

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