"What word or expression do you most overuse? Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was 'perhaps."

-- Christopher Hitchens

#Reading Quotes #Expression Quotes #Stuff Quotes

“The Head of Story is defined differently for each film. But I found that the role for me was to support the director's vision, and to be a conduit to the story team - and managing that team to realize the vision.”
“I didn't want to see George Hamilton playing me, I wanted the real thing.”
“In the end, the bedrock of existence is not made up of the family, or work, or what others say or think of you, but of moments like this when you are exalted by a transcendent power that is more serene than love. Life dispenses them parsimoniously; our feeble hearts could not stand more.”
“Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history.”

Source : Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.161, Broadway Books
“When you are a kid, you need to have something to do. This will keep you off the streets.”
“To cross the seas, to traverse the roads, and to work machinery by galvanism, or rather electro-magnetism, will certainly, if executed, be the most noble achievement ever performed by man.”

Source : Alfred Smee (1843). “Elements of Electro-metallurgy”, p.300
“There are four principles we need to maintain: First, read the Word of God. Second, consume the Word of God until it consumes you. Third believe the Word of God. Fourth, act on the Word.”
“Teams like Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes are going to be very, very motivated to go for the titles.”

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