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		Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Quentin Crisp 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sally Schneider 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I never judge my own songwriting. It's just my heart. What's there to judge about your own heart? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Banks 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I love fashion and there is no easier way to express yourself than through the clothes you wear. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Victoria Justice 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Florence Nightingale 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				C. S. Lewis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Physically, I've seen a change in my life. No, I haven't had a face lift or anything like that. I've grown. That's God's countenance. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Natalie Cole 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Candice Millard 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I wanted to get into films, and my parents were against it. I convinced my mom, and finally she convinced my dad. My dad then felt, who best to launch his son than him? So he launched me, and here I am. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vijay 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				P. T. Barnum 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Carl Hiaasen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Patricia Cornwell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Part of me looks forward to a time when I have a family and a partner and I take less of my nourishment from social occasions. Having a little unit around me will make my working life easier, because it is quite lonely otherwise. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Taron Egerton 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Man's conscience is the oracle of God. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lord Byron 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Let there be an SU(5) Yang-Mills theory with all its gauge bosons, let the symmetry be broken down spontaneously, and let all but one of the remaining massless gauge bosons be sold into infrared slavery. That one last gauge boson is my favorite. Let him rush forth to illuminate all of my creations! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Anthony Zee 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Whatever my own practice may be, I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Henry David Thoreau 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Joseph Butler 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Quentin Crisp