"There are one hundred glow-stars on my bedroom ceiling. (...) Glow-stars are strange. They make the ceiling disappear."

-- Alex Garland

#Stars Quotes #Ceilings Quotes #Strange Quotes

“Historically, the stock market is like a gambling casino with the odds in your favor. Over the long pull, stocks are given something like nine and a half to ten percent compounded per year. The banks have probably given you something in the order of four to five.”
“You don’t obey your way into faith (the Pharisees proved that); you believe your way into obedience.”
“Everyone has an effect on others. Some people inspire others to do great things. Some take people into crime with them. Those with the gift affect those around them even more.”
“I'll live a lush life in some small dive.”

Source : Song: Lush Life
“A photographer is an acrobat treading the high wire of chance, trying to capture shooting stars.”
“Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys' network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is.”

Source : "We don't want a gravy train for the well-connected few" by Jimmy Reid, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 1999.
“So OK, it's your special big Four-O birthday But don't expect me to be obsequious and fawning You, being you, can't possibly be a good example So do try, at least, to serve as a warning”
“It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.”

Source : "Off the Page: Anthony Doerr". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.

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