"Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite."

-- C. S. Lewis

#Communication Quotes #Writing Quotes #Mean Quotes

“In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent.”
“I want to spend my time at colleges and universities.”
“I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play.”
“I've destroyed my feet completely but I don't care. What do you really need your feet for anyway”
“Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You canâ€™t feel pain, you arenâ€™t gonna feel anything else, either.”

Source : Judith Guest (1982). “Ordinary People”, p.227, Penguin
“In my mind I'm going to Carolina. Can't you see the sunshine, can't you just feel the moonshine? Ain't it just like a friend of mine, to hit me from behind, and I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind.”
“How much more of the mosque, of prayer and fasting? Better go drunk and begging round the taverns. Khayyam, drink wine, for soon this clay of yours Will make a cup, bowl, one day a jar. When once you hear the roses are in bloom, Then is the time, my love, to pour the wine; Houris and palaces and Heaven and Hell- These are but fairy-tales, forget them all.”
“It's not what you give, it's the way you give it.”

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