"The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question 'How can we eat?' the second by the question 'Why do we eat?' and the third by the question 'Where shall we have lunch?"

-- Douglas Adams

#Civilization Quotes #Lunch Quotes #Survival Quotes

“So the only things I was being allowed to audition for were small roles in comedies. It broke my heart. No one would see me for anything else. I knew, in order to open up my career, I had to leave or that's all I would ever be given.”
“I'm much more interested in shows that maybe not everybody loves, but a lot of people REALLY love. That's how I am as a person. I'm as extreme as the roles in the shows that I like to be on.”
“I had been to São Paulo the year before and became pretty well acquainted with the music of composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, I had already started playing that music, and the audience response had been pretty good because those songs are so melodic. I knew it would be something that would be appealing; I wasn't thinking that it would make the top of the pop charts or anything like that.”
“Death is never very pretty.”

Source : Maj Sjowall, Per Wahloo (2010). “Cop Killer: A Martin Beck Police Mystery (9)”, p.6, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
“I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.”

Source : FaceBook post by Richard Ford from Nov 08, 2016
“I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.”
“When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.”
“J.R.R.Tolkien has confessed that about a third of the way through The Fellowship of the Ring, some ruffian named Strider confronted the hobbits in an inn, and Tolkien was in despair. He didn't know who Strider was, where the book was going, or what to write next. Strider turns out to be no lesser person than Aragorn, the unrecognized and uncrowned king of all the forces of good, whose restoration to rule is, along with the destruction of the evil ring, the engine that moves the plot of the whole massive trilogy, The Lord of the Rings.”

Source : Ansen Dibell (1988). “Plot”, Writers Digest Books

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