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When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#books #british #british museum #catalogue #die

Well, listen, you know, the Czech saying is, you know, when you are drowning you are grabbing even a little twig. That's what all Czechs were doing, grabbing for... with the hope for this little twig. ↗

— Milos Forman

#czechs #doing #drowning #even #grabbing

When a man gets up to speak, people listen then look. When a woman gets up, people kook; then, if they like what they see, they listen. ↗

— Pauline Frederick

#like #listen #look #man #people

Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#children #ear #half #just #listened

A journalist and an information architect face exactly the same problem - how to give shape to the pile of information in front of you in a way that will make it easy and natural for people to comprehend. I can't imagine any better preparation for the work I do now. ↗

— Jesse James Garrett

#architect #better #comprehend #easy #exactly

Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#clearly #communicate #listen #our #specifically

Very seldom do we receive any support for trusting ourselves, listening to our own sense of inner truth, and expressing ourselves in a direct and honest way. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#direct #expressing #honest #inner #listening

He was the kind of young man whose handsome face has brought him plenty of success in the past and is now ever-ready for a new encounter, a fresh-experience, always eager to set off into the unknown territory of a little adventure, never taken by surprise because he has worked out everything in advance and is waiting to see what happens, a man who will never overlook any erotic opportunity, whose first glance probes every woman's sensuality, and explores it, without discriminating between his friend's wife and the parlour-maid who opens the door to him. Such men are described with a certain facile contempt as lady-killers, but the term has a nugget of truthful observation in it, for in fact all the passionate instincts of the chase are present in their ceaseless vigilance: the stalking of the prey, the excitement and mental cruelty of the kill. They are constantly on the alert, always ready and willing to follow the trail of an adventure to the very edge of the abyss. They are full of passion all the time, but it is the passion of a gambler rather than a lover, cold, calculating and dangerous. Some are so persistent that their whole lives, long after their youth is spent, are made an eternal adventure by this expectation. Each of their days is resolved into hundreds of small sensual experiences - a look exchanged in passing, a fleeting smile, knees brushing together as a couple sit opposite each other - and the year, in its own turn, dissolves into hundreds of such days in which sensuous experience is the constantly flowing, nourishing, inspiring source of life. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#ladies-man #ladykiller #libertine #lust #philanderer

I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#body #coaches #comes #feel #feel good

It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader. ↗

— Elizabeth George

#novelist #reader #touch