"All guys are scared of each other, didn't you know that? I'm not the only one. We're all born afraid."

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Source : Cornell Woolrich, Francis M. Nevins (2005). “Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories”, p.388, Carroll & Graf

Cornell Woolrich

#Fear Quotes #Guy Quotes #Scared Quotes

“If I see a chapstick that I've never tried, I have to buy it. And then once that door's been opened, I have to check the whole store to see if there are more chapsticks that I don't have.”

Source : "Anna Kendrick Talks WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING, GET A JOB, END OF WATCH, and Her Desire to Play More Stoners". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 18, 2012.
“In spite of everything, there is still no more wonderful vocation than to continue to tolerate events and to work on in the name of our mission, in the name of that spirit which lives on in our teaching and in our vision of humanity and art, the spirit which can lead us Jews down the true and just path. But along the way, peoples will spill our blood, and that of others.”
“the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.”
“At the end of the day you gotta feel some way. So why not feel unbeatable? Why not feel untouchable.”
“I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.”
“If it were not for me, the Gracies would be selling Bananas in Largo do Machado!”
“The sanserif only seems to be the simpler script. It is a form that was violently reduced for little children. For adults it is more difficult to read than serifed roman type, whose serifs were never meant to be ornamental.”

Source : Jan Tschichold, Robert Bringhurst, Hajo Hadeler (1991). “The form of the book: essays on the morality of good design”, Hartley & Marks Publishers
“Do the best you can. But I want to emphasize that it be the very best. We are too prone to be satisfied with mediocre performance. We are capable of doing so much better.”

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