"Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or raft rivers understand this."

-- David R. Brower

#Memorable Quotes #Rivers Quotes #Luck Quotes

“As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.”
“From the first time heâ€™d met her, heâ€™d sensed an air of contradiction about her. She was very much a woman, but still retained a waiflike quality. She could be brash, and at times deliberately suggestive, yet she was painfully shy. She was incredibly easy to get along with, yet she had few friends. She was a talented artist in her own right, but so self-conscious about her work that she rarely completed a piece and preferred to work with other peopleâ€™s art and ideas...”
“... what counts in life usually cannot be counted.”

Source : Robert Gordis (1960). “A Faith for Moderns”
“I was an excellent student before I left school. But I graduated early so that I could work longer hours on '90210.”
“Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment.”
“I run the gauntlet of a file of doubts, Each one of which down hurls me to the ground.”
“I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.”

Source : "Still Walters" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2002.
“As far as I'm concerned all theatre is physical. As Aristotle says, you know, theatre is an act and an action, and he didn't mean just the writing of it, he meant that at the centre of any piece there is an action, a physical action.”

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