#tho

And I might add the confidence with which distracted persons do oftentimes, when they are awake, think, they see black fiends in places, where there is no black object in sight without them. ↗

— Robert Boyle

#awake #black #confidence #distracted #fiends

I actually really suck at naming books, so lots of years ago, readers were sending in their ideas for titles, and what we realized is that they were smarter than us. So we thought, Hey, go for it. So now we have a contest every year. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#ago #books #contest #every #go

I took all of my rejection letters - there must have been thousands of them in a huge box - and I went out on the curb and burned them all, crying. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#box #burned #crying #curb #huge

Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace. ↗

— Raul Julia

#becoming #cigar #everything #fade #fades

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#better #book #college #complete #days

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#good #hard #hard work #heard #i

Actually, as that first association continued, we got a little more legitimate. In those days, they asked Boy Scout troops to act as ushers during the football games. So we signed up and I went to many games in full Boy Scout uniform as an usher. ↗

— Daniel J. Evans

#actually #asked #association #ball games #boy

I really got to a point where I thought maybe I would want to be involved politically. ↗

— Daniel J. Evans

#i #involved #maybe #point #politically

I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22. ↗

— Daniel J. Evans

#although #because #behind #being #chose

The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of things as you got more senior in your Navy career. ↗

— Daniel J. Evans

#could #got #kind #kinds #leader