"Most animals show themselves sparingly. The grizzly bear is six to eight hundred pounds of smugness. It has no need to hide. If it were a person, it would laugh loudly in quiet restaurants, boastfully wear the wrong clothes for special occasions, and probably play hockey."

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Source : Craig Childs (1997). “Crossing Paths: Uncommon Encounters with Animals in the Wild”, Sasquatch Books

Craig Childs

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“Faith is the enemy of discovery.”
“Action is the music of our life. Like music, it starts from a pause of leisure, a silence of activity which our initiative attacks; then it develops according to its inner logic, passes its climax, seeks its cadence, ends, and restores silence, leisure again. Action and leisure are thus interdependent; echoing and recalling each other, so that action enlivens leisure with its memories and anticipations, and leisure expands and raises action beyond its mere immediate self and gives it a permanent meaning.”

Source : Salvador de Madariaga (1954). “Essays with a Purpose”
“Cheesecake Factory is great. It should have Michelin stars.”
“If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven.”
“As a matter of fact, I've been to Italy many times before I met my husband, which he can't even imagine that I could possibly know anything about Italian food. But, you know, Italian food's really basic, and there's so many different variations on it that what my husband did is he broke it down for me.”
“I try to reach for the stars because if you say you want something small and it happens, you don't believe it. So I try to say something wild and crazy.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.”

Source : Afterthoughts (1931) "Art and Letters"
“At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs.”

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