“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
-Ernest Hemingway
Month: May 2017
“Mine Enemy is growing old —
I have at last Revenge —
The Palate of the Hate departs —
If any would avenge”
-Emily Dickinson
“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible.”
-Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The…
“In a ravine she lived, and took shape as a spider of monstrous form, weaving her black webs in a cleft of the mountains. There she sucked up all light that she could find, and spun it forth again in dark nets of strangling gloom, until no light more could come to her abode; and she was famished.”
-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.”
-Winston Churchill
Continuing an irregular tradition based on one of the most popular posts of all time,…
“I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you’ve lost human scale.”
-Harrison Ford
“If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.”
-Mario Andretti
“Picture yourself in a boat on a river, With tangerine trees and marmalade skies,
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly,
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes”
– The Beatles, Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
“Begin at the beginning,” the King said, very gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
-Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
