"Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I'm sleeping."

-- John Grisham

#Fun Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Years Quotes

“I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.”

Source : Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.365, U of Nebraska Press
“We are each other's magnitude and bond.”
“I've got to get the ultimate in composition today. or I've got to get the ultimate in light, I'll stay here until it appears. I was not making any demands. I went purely to see what would come, what might be there. I didn't have to be archaeologist or historian or tourist, I just needed to be available.”
“There are such a lot of things that have no place in summer and autumn and spring. Everything thatâ€™s a little shy and a little rum. Some kinds of night animals and people that donâ€™t fit in with others and that nobody really believes in. They keep out of the way all the year. And then when everythingâ€™s quiet and white and the nights are long and most people are asleepâ€”then they appear.”
“Sandy deWitt at TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris in Johannesburg, South Africa, taught me to make a decision and stick with it. Every day we're faced with reasons why we shouldn't do good work: it's too scary, too hard to pull off, there's no time, no money, etc. You have to be brave and commit to your choices in the face of adversity. If you waver, nothing will turn out the way you imagined it.”
“I seem to be some sort of lightning rod. I just really irritate people, you know? I really do.”
“It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.”
“When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.”

Source : "Vanessa-Mae on the 12 year bitter feud with her mother" by Tom Bryant, www.mirror.co.uk. June 18, 2011.

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