"Fishing in a bucket. The total hopelessness of the activity was very soothing. It was the perfect sport. Without the emotional stresses of success and failure, she was entirely free to enjoy the pleasures of the moment... It was a good hobby, and cheap, and if more people did it more often"

-- Hilary McKay

#Sports Quotes #Stress Quotes #Emotional Quotes

“You can't buy a good reputation; you must earn it.”
“That peace which is within us, we must experience it. And if we are searching for peace outside we will never find the peace within.”

Source : Speech at Baisakhi Festival in Meerut, India, April 12, 1971.
“Clothes are expensive. You have to buy them, and to buy them, you have to believe in them.”
“Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is.”
“What I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that.”
“I may not be a great actress but I've become the greatest at screen orgasms. Ten seconds of heavy breathing, roll your head from side to side, simulate a slight asthma attack and die a little.”
“The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or - you said yes”
“I think in the old days, films really went for the shock, with the blood and guts, but movies are getting better. The writing and directing have improved a lot, because the audience demands it.”

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