"I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen."

-- Julian Barnes

#Years Quotes #Littles Quotes #Made Quotes

“Comics are expensive. Donâ€™t make me resent the money I spend buying yours. Every single moment in your script must either move the story along or demonstrate something important about the characters â€” preferably both â€” and every panel that does neither is a sloppy waste of space.”
“Soon after a disaster passes, we tend to turn our eyes away and focus our resources on the day-to-day, rather than on preparing for the rare, but foreseeable and potentially catastrophic disaster. It's another form of triage, how much we invest in preparing for that, a very important question for public policy. We are a short-sighted species.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“If you judge after appearances, you will continue to be enslaved by the evidence of your senses.”

Source : Neville Goddard (2013). “Your Faith is Your Fortune”, p.31, Simon and Schuster
“Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.”
“When I went into gospel, I didn't think it was respectful to still do R&B and gospel at the same time. It is not because of anything written or the church going off on me. It was more of Regina putting stipulations on herself and stating where she couldn't go because she got this calling in her life.”
“The dragonets found the carpenters to be even more fascinating than the furniture, and followed the poor men from pen to pen, crowding around to watch, tasting the wooden planks, trying to steal the tools. It made for an interesting day for everyone, as the boys tried to keep the dragonets away from the carpenters, and the dragonets tried to get at the carpenters, and the carpenters worked probably a great deal faster than they ever had in their lives, sure that the dragonets would go from tasting the wood to tasting them.”
“The things that you know more about than you want to know are very useful.”
“So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.”

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