"These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening to their voices, the one or the other, acording to his mood. He misuses them quite ruthlessly - despite the respectful way he has to talk about them in public - to put him to bed, to take his mind off the hands of the clock, to relax the nagging of his pyloric spasm, to gossip him out of his melancholy, to trigger the conditioned reflexes of his colon."

-- Christopher Isherwood

#Wise Quotes #Book Quotes #Hands Quotes

“I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!”
“I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.”
“Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it's about how many peoples' lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before.”
“You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player.”
“It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's decline.”
“Most good media come out of somebody saying, 'This should exist; this is something I want to read.”

Source : "How can I sex up this blog business?" by Steven Levy, www.wired.com. June 01, 2004.
“If you're not having fun in baseball, you miss the point of everything.”
“I played Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.”

Source : "Margo Martindale: A 'Justified' Moonshine Matriarch". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 12, 2011.

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