"Anyone who works in the arts knows, if you're writing a novel or a play or anything, you have to be ready for someone to say, 'Your time is up.'"

-- Colm Toibin

#Art Quotes #Writing Quotes #Play Quotes

“Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They'll just spring on you like a ninja.”

Source : Barry Lyga (2012). “I Hunt Killers”, p.168, Random House
“There is no plateau of resting or stabilising. Once you are interested in how things evolve, you have a kind of never-ending perspective, because it means you are interested in articulating the evolution, and therefore the potential change, the potential redefinition.”
“For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.”
“I died upon that mountain. There is no question. A part of me will forever be upon that mountain. Dead. That's my brothers died. If there's a part of me that live, because of my brothers. Because of them I am still alive, and I can never forget, that no matter how much it hurts, how dark it gets, or how far you fall. You are never out of the fight.”
“In an automobile, if you think about the navigation system - of all the cars in the world, four out of five cars in the world if they have a navigation system have something from Nokia inside that car - the data, the platform, something. So we play a very strong role there.”

Source : "News Stream" with Kristie Lu Stout, www.cnn.com. February 25, 2013.
“In the name of friendship you should make sure your door is always open to listen. Don't feel you need to provide unsolicited possible solutions, answers or even ideas. Listening without judgment and offering assistance when asked should be enough. That's friendship's high calling.”
“You think that if you are the best actor, you deserve the most or if you are the biggest star, you deserve the most. That race just isn't important to me.”
“Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise...”

Source : Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.5, Verso

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