"I have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Anglo-Saxon / Middle English by a friend who had to take it for her Ph.D. They told her to write an essay in Early Anglo-Saxon on any-subject-of-her-own-choosing. â€œWhich is all very well,â€ she said bitterly, â€œbut the only essay subject you can find enough Early Anglo-Saxon words for is â€˜How to Slaughter a Thousand Men in a Mead Hallâ€™."

-- Helene Hanff

#Writing Quotes #Men Quotes #Guilt Quotes

“I was a barfly, so going to work and acting and rehearsing and then going and sitting in a bar and drinking and then going home was sort of my lifestyle. And there was none of that out here in the '70s when I was lucky enough to get movies, and nobody else that I knew was working in movies at that point. I didn't really have a lot of movie friends.”

Source : Source: tv.avclub.com
“It's too bad patient-centered care is not rocket science, because if it was, we would be really good at it.”
“On stage, I think I'm 35. Working takes over my whole body and I become a younger man - that's why I won't stop.”
“I consciously memorized the speed at which every pitcher in the league threw his fastball, curve, and slider; then, I'd pick up the speed of the ball in the first thirty feet of its flight and knew how it would move once it had crossed the plate.”

Source : "Stan Musial, baseball great, dies at 92", www.sfgate.com. January 19, 2013.
“But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.”
“I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the kind of religion that posits a Creator. To my way of thinking, an omnipotent being who sets up a universe in which thinking beings proliferate, grow old, and die (usually in agony, alone, and in fear) is a cosmic sadist.”

Source : Charles Stross (2010). “The Fuller Memorandum”, p.113, Penguin
“I'm a huge television fan, in general. I love TV. I love movies. I always have. It's what I do, and I love it.”

Source : Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 3, 2015.
“One does what one is; one becomes what one does.”

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