"A lie is like a cat: you need to stop it before it gets out the door or itâ€™s really hard to catch."

-- Charles M. Blow

#Lying Quotes #Cat Quotes #Doors Quotes

“It's no use practicing too much. First you have to find out how to do it best. You have to be able to invent ways of doing better. Not only practice; obviously you have to practice. But to invent things how to do better. If somebody doesn't know what invention means, he should stop violin playing! You can't explain everything... Not practicing only: Think how to achieve quality.”
“It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on.”
“Is drunk dancing a type?”
“Never sleep in a small tent with your nemesis.”
“It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time.”

Source : "Bryan Batt, ‘Mad Men’ Actor, Talks 54 Below Cabaret Show And Living A ‘Happy, Open Life’" by Curtis M. Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2013.
“For my part I have sought liberty more than power, and power only because it can lead to freedom. What interested me was not a philosophy of the free man (all who try that have proved tiresome), but a technique: I hoped to discover the hinge where our will meets and moves with destiny, and where discipline strengthens, instead of restraining, our nature.”

Source : Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”, New York, Farrar
“A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.”
“I can't do nothin except try to find cloud nine.”

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