#lit

I'm a realist and I always have been. Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life. ↗

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#always #athlete #been #before #being

I'm not quite that difficult, even though maybe I'm a little bit bossy. But you know, in order to get things done, you do have to be a little bit bossy sometimes or tell people what you really want. Otherwise, things just don't get done, do they? ↗

— Heidi Klum

#bossy #difficult #done #even #get

The Harley's got a little too much torque when it comes to jumping. ↗

— Evel Knievel

#got #harley #jumping #little #much

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#literature #tidings #within #without #world

The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#commanders #constitution #earnestly #fidelity #hungarian

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#effect #literature #once #progress #social

Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#experience #literature #personal #personal experience #real

With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it. ↗

— Geddy Lee

#fleeting #get #i #i always #little

As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.' ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#each #early #encouraged #feel #grateful

I'd like to do something a little different. Something a little less intense. I'm not sure what it's going to be yet. For the first time in my life, it's great to have choices, but I think I have to be very careful in choosing the right next project. ↗

— Kristanna Loken

#choices #choosing #different #first #first time