"When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up when I went to work with him. I had a talent for knocking over paint and painting myself into corners. I also realized fairly quickly that painting bored me."

-- Markus Zusak

#Growing Up Quotes #Father Quotes #Bored Quotes

“Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.”

Source : Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1952). “Selected prose”
“Earthly pride is like the passing flower, that springs to fall, and blossoms but to die.”

Source : Henry Kirke White (1834). “The Life and Remains of Henry Kirke White, Etc”, p.95
“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?”
“It has long been my desire to be a little worm in the fair apple of Progress.”
“I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took counsel with this great solitude - and the whisper had proved irresistibly fascinating. It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.”
“When I meet thousands of fans of the comic - when I realize every one of them can recite the Lantern Corps oath ('In Brightest Day, in blackest night...') - I know how important this is to people.”
“[T]he power system continues only as long as individuals try to get something for nothing. The day when a majority of individuals declares or acts as if it wants nothing from the government, declares that it will look after its own welfare and interests, then on that day the power elites are doomed.”
“You remove heavy metals out of the ground and you turn that into tables, and houses and bridges and dreams for people in the developing world. I love doing that.”

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