"The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them. Three hundred sixty-five days later, we try again and find that the same thing has happened. Each time the goal is reached, it becomes Not So Much Fun, and we're off to reach the next one, then the next one, then the next."

-- Benjamin Hoff

#Fun Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Goal Quotes

“Three half-mile repeats on the track at 5-K race pace with a short recovery jog in between shouldn't scare anyone away-and it will improve your speed.”
“When one door closes, find another." Kylie gazed back up. "And what if there isn't another door?" "Then you try the window." "And if there's not a window?" Kylie asked. "Then you find a sledgehammer and make a window.”
“I'm not unswayed by the opinions of others. I actually really value that, the idea that you can feel things the way somebody else might feel them is a really big part of doing music for me.”

Source : "Deerhoof". Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. February 26, 2006.
“A camera can get you close without the burden of commitment. It's a nifty device that way, a magical passport into people's lives with no permanent strings attached.”

Source : "Photographs Not Taken". Book by Will Steacy, www.newyorker.com. 2012.
“Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.”
“Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue”
“And, obviously as a, as one who likes to travel around myself a lot, I think the Earth is a beautiful place. And, I'm looking forward to some new perspectives.”
“Nothing remains but to hope the end will come to extinguish the unrelenting pain of waiting for it.”

Source : Pier Paolo Pasolini, Norman MacAfee, Luciano Martinengo (1982). “Poems”, New York : Random House

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