Ilikuwa Tarehe Quotes & Sayings

Work addiction seems to be an addiction we are proud of. We almost seem to brag with mock displeasure that we are "overwhelmed" with busyness, sometimes as an excuse for not really being able to do what we really want to be doing. Work addiction is a symptom not of working your brains out but of your brain working you out. Why are you doing what you're doing for a career and how do you like doing it? Do you like your answer? — Paul Pearsall

It really helps if you know your subject matter immediately. I find that enormously useful because then you can concentrate on all the usual novelistic things - the character, the plot and so forth - and you don't have to spend an enormous amount of time learning another trade, essentially. — Gregory Benford

Chances are like criticism; few like to take it, some love to give it, yet most never see it. — Carl Henegan

You know, for someone who believes in me so much, you really have no faith in me at all. — Courtney Allison Moulton

So that's your sister?" asks Dee in a quiet voice.
"Yeah."
"The one you risked your life for?"
"Yeah."
The twins nod politely in that automatic way that people do when they don't want to say something insulting.
"Your family any better?" I ask.
Dee and Dum look at each other, assessing.
"Nah," says Dee.
"Not really," says Dum at the same time. — Susan Ee

7Cast all your worries upon him because he cares for you. — Anonymous

By "empathy," some people mean everything that is good - compassion, kindness, warmth, love, being a mensch, changing the world - and I'm for all of those things. I'm not a monster. — Paul Bloom

The whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress; Cezanne and after him Picasso and myself can take a lot of credit for this ... Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away form the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should. — Georges Braque

When I was a really young child, I felt like I could see fairies. I was convinced there were fairies in my grandmother's garden. — Noel Fielding

I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents. — Gloria Swanson

I used a geological sample container (also known as "a box"). — Andy Weir

Before every game he played Willie Ofahengaue would pray. But it to us it was never clear whether he prayed for himself or for the safety of the opposition! — Peter FitzSimons

I started on the stage when I was 13 and I consider the stage my home. — Joyce DeWitt

Show enough regret, and your refusal will inspire gratitude. — Mason Cooley