"It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character."

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Character Quotes #Taste Quotes #Common Quotes

“I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know...”

Source : Bohumil Hrabal (1992). “Too Loud a Solitude”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“You have to know what you want. And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back, because perhaps that is instinctively where you want to be. And if you hold back and try to be always where you have been before, you will go dry.”
“Virginians were nice, they confided to each other, if caught singly. Two Virginians, of course, talked horses.”
“There are many stories I've wanted to write that I'm simply not able to - sometimes I haven't found the way in yet, and it doesn't matter how hard I try.”
“I do not have any pets. We travel too much.”
“Three outstanding qualities make for success: judgment, industry, health. And the greatest of these is judgment.”
“The mineral kingdom consists of the fossil substances found in the earth. These are either entirely destitute of organic structure, or, having once possessed it, possess it no longer: such are the petrefactions.”

Source : William Withering, Torbern Bergman (1822). “The miscellaneous tracts of the late William Withering: to which is prefixed a memoir of his life, character, and writings”, p.9
“I was trying to get into the business from a young age, but I don't think I really realized how much I loved it until I booked my first movie and found myself in New Zealand for six months filming Bridge to Terabithia.”

Source : Source: www.etonline.com

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