"Anything worth doing is worth doing twice, the first time quick and dirty and the second time the best way you can."

-- Arthur Leonard Schawlow

#Dirty Quotes #Way Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“True optimism is not the prospect of control over pain or elimination of it but survival through it.”

Source : David Richo (1999). “Shadow Dance”, p.39, Shambhala Publications
“The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and oneâ€™s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.”
“Large men in black plate mail with red cloaks and plumes don't sneak worth a damn.”

Source : Tanya Huff (2011). “Nights of the Round Table: And Other Stories of Heroic Fantasy”, p.124, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
“I have shared my whole life. My private and my show business life. It helps me actually to feel my songs and to go on with my dreams.”
“All in all, this whole period of winter 1919-20 was a single struggle to strengthen confidence in the victorious might of the young movement and raise it to that fanaticism of faith which can move mountains.”
“Ever since the Reformation, the case of legislation confining Catholics had been constructed primarily to protect a nervously Protestant against what was assumed to be a fifth column in its midst... Ministers believedm with some justice, that Catholics retained an attachment to their exiled co-religionists, the princes of the House of Stuart. After the Battle of Culloden had confirmed Jacobitism's insignificance, however, government attitudes towards Catholicism began perceptibly and logically to relax.”
“Every hour you spend writing is an hour you don't spend worrying about your writing.”
“Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.”

Source : Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.5, Vintage Canada

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