Sept 14 Quotes

#1. When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.

Len Wein

#2. I don't resist progress, but I have a growing feeling that mankind uses it mostly for disgraceful purposes.

Stanislaw Lem

#3. What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators, Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?" So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply "They are merely conventional signs!

Lewis Carroll

#4. We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent, and intimate hours.

Marcel Proust

#5. Many crores of rupees are squandered in this country by way offering gratitude to God and bribing Him to gain greater and greater wealth.

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

#6. God is concerned that you succeed, that you make progress, that you keep moving forward. All you need to do is understand and do His will.

Sunday Adelaja

#7. I'm not into having a pedigree dog.

Agnes Obel

#8. Sometimes you want things so bad you will kind of lower your standards, and I've learned that once you do that, it's really hard to go back, to get people to respect you and respect your craft.

Tamar Braxton

#9. [John] Kobak explained, 'The way you learn anything is that something fails, and you figure out how not to have it fail again.

Robert S. Arrighi

#10. In my old age, it's kind of funny - at night, what I like to do is watch TV when I go to sleep. And what I really like is to put on a Gene Autry film, because he sings really well. So he sings me to sleep.

Phil Everly

#11. If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.

Studs Terkel

#12. Death submits to no one.

Homer