"I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me."

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Disappointment Quotes #Real Quotes #Book Quotes

“The generation of consumers who swallow this pessimistic sentiment can't see past the product to its debased morality. Instead, their excitement about The Dark Knight's dread (that teenage thrall with subversion) inspires their fealty to product.”
“Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn't doing to well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful.”
“This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it show one person another's most intimate thoughts and feelings, that it throw open the window of the soul.”
“Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the reality of childhood, could suppose it is time of joys.”
“I possess the greatest power ever bestowed upon mankind, the power of choice. Today, I choose to persist without exception. No longer will I live in a dimension of distraction, my focus blown hither and yon like a leaf on a blustery day. I know the outcome I desire. I hold fast to my dreams. I stay the course. I do not quit.”
“I've been doing music for a pretty long time, since I was a kid, and I must have been around 10 years old when I started playing shows with my siblings.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Who is more irrational, the guy who believes in a God he can't see, or a guy who's offended by a God he doesn't believe in?”

Source : Brad Stine (2006). “Live from Middle America: Rants from a Red-State Comedian”, Hudson st Press
“Faith is trusting in the good. Fear is putting your trust in the bad.”

Source : Rhonda Byrne (2013). “The Secret Daily Teachings”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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