"A man who casts no shadow isn't really a man at all."

-- Joanne Harris

#Men Quotes #Shadow Quotes #Casts Quotes

“It's a funny thing that people are always ready to admit it if they've no talent for drawing or music, whereas everyone imagines that they themselves are capable of true love, which is a talent like any other, only far more rare.”
“I had to add Oguchi into the list. After all, heâ€™s a soccer playerâ€”fittest athletes ever. At 6'4 210 pounds, he's one of the most feared men in the world's game. I've played against a lot of massive defenders. And no one has Oguchi's strength. His shoulders and chest are so big that people confuse him with an NFL player. He can move anyone in the game with one arm, including the best strikers in the world. Guys absolutely fear him.”
“A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.”
“Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek.”
“The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong.”

Source : Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.535, Pan Macmillan
“I have a rule on my team: When we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.”
“The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the material for a tree, then for a man, then for something else...”
“Speed is a part of me. I think I was born with that, and nowadays a fast player, I need a fast car, too.”

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