Pimix Quotes & Sayings

I'd rather be a failure in something that I love than a success in something that I hate. — George Burns

The biggest fool to hit the big time and all I've got to do is act naturally. — Buck Owens

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors. — Eugene O'Neill

I received 500,000 discrete bits of information today, of which maybe 25 are important. My job is to make some sense of it. — David Foster Wallace

This has to be a Rule because there can be no choice here. We have to accept that we are the way we are - the result of everything that has happened. It all just is. — Richard Templar

If one is to succeed in anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession. — Carlos Castaneda

One afternoon I lay on my bed, inert with mental fatigue, enumerating my many frustrations with the country & with the task I had set myself. It had taken me months of work to get this far, & every step of the way I felt I was pushing against some mighty, unspoken resistance. Time & time again I had felt that hardly a fact or a single item of information had been volunteered; every day I made half a dozen telephone calls; I trekked out to interview anyone who would talk to me, then found myself returning to the same place to ask for more information--questions I had omitted to ask, chase details they did not think, or perhaps wish, to supply. This was as true of people who had no reason to dissemble as of those who did. — Aminatta Forna

They filed out in descending order by altitudes, the father first, out through the sunlit doors in a sextet of calico isotropes and into the street, the elder smiling, along through the crowds and down the road toward the river still single file and with deadpan decorum leaving behind a congregation mute and astounded. — Cormac McCarthy

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines ... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters. — Bill Gates

In view of the fading animals the proliferation of sewers and fears the sea clogging, the air nearing extinction we should be kind, we should take warning, we should forgive each other Instead we are opposite, we touch as though attacking, the gifts we bring even in good faith maybe warp in our hands to implements, to manoeuvres — Margaret Atwood

Certainly being governor is an important job — Marco Rubio

It's all a great mystery ... Look up at the sky and you'll see how everything changes — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Many economists are great believers in the idea that everything in nature is competitive and that we should set up a society which is competitive to reflect that. Anyone who cannot keep up, well, too bad. — Frans De Waal