"Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write."

-- James T. Farrell

#Writing Quotes #Men Quotes

“... the designer of a new system must not only be the implementor and the first large-scale user; the designer should also write the first user manual. ... If I had not participated fully in all these activities, literally hundreds of improvements would never have been made, because I would never have thought of them or perceived why they were important.”
“It sucks that we miss people like that. You think you've accepted that someone is out of your life, that you've grieved and it's over, and then bam. One little thing, and you feel like you've lost that person all over again.”
“The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault of your own, your body begins to fail. You regress. Strong limbs become feeble, keen senses grow dull, hardy constitutions deteriorate. Beauty withers. Organs quit. You remember yourself in your prime, and wonder where that person went. As your wisdom and experience are peaking, your traitorous body becomes a prison.”

Source : Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2007). “Fablehaven”, p.146, Simon and Schuster
“The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a diarist filmmaker, not one who stages scenes with actors, it has always been about the present moment.”
“When you actually make a new friend, and you make music and laugh really hard together, that can give you a lot of confidence and nourishment and encouragement.”

Source : "Arca's Warped Beauty". Interview with Philip Sherburne, pitchfork.com. November 19, 2015.
“You can do better than this.â€Â The best slogan I can think of to leave with the kids of the U.S.A. would be â€œWe can . . . and weâ€™ve got to . . . do better than this.”
“In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought is divinely classified into two kinds - that which is their own and that which is false and dangerous.”

Source : "American Communications Association v. Douds, 339 U.S. 382, 438". Judicial opinion, 1950.
“When it's first and a mile, I won't give it to him.”

Source : "One-of-a-kind Bum Phillips remembered by family, former Oilers and fans in Houston". www.foxnews.com. October 29, 2013.

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