"The stratosphere is a hostile place."

-- Felix Baumgartner

“When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it.”
“I was working in financing. I was buying and selling stocks for a market-maker on the options floor at the Pacific Stock Exchange. He took me under his wing and was training me to take over his accounts. That's the career I had embarked on, at the time.”
“In the Bible (Hebrews, 6:19), hope is â€˜an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil.â€™ Here [in Watts painting], Hope is blindfolded, seated on a globe and playing a lyre of which all but one of the strings are broken . . . Hopeâ€™s attempts to make music appear futile and several critics argued that the work might have been more appropriately titledDespair. Watts explained that â€˜Hopeneed not mean expectancy. It suggests here, rather, the music which can come from the remaining cordâ€™.”
“Attractive things work better When you wash and wax a car, it drives better, doesnâ€™t it? Or at least feels like it does.”
“No company fails in communist China, because they're all partly owned by the government.”
“If they say "you have your last chance to look at the world", I wish that look would from Ã‡amlÄ±ca of Istanbul.”
“In a pinch, I could always get work in pictures as a makeup artist.”

Source : Lana Wood (2011). “Natalie: A Memoir About Natalie Wood by Her Sister”, p.3, Graymalkin Media
“Egotism is such a terrible disease, he dies, to be reincarnated he continues coming and going.”

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