“if I want a crown I must go and hunt it for myself.”
― Rudyard Kipling, quote from The Man Who Would Be King
“I have been fellow to a beggar again and again under circumstances which prevented either of us finding out whether the other was worthy.”
― Rudyard Kipling, quote from The Man Who Would Be King
“The wheel of the world swings through the same phases again and again.”
― Rudyard Kipling, quote from The Man Who Would Be King
“Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.”
― Rudyard Kipling, quote from The Man Who Would Be King
“Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy.”
― Rudyard Kipling, quote from The Man Who Would Be King
“The Law, as quoted, lays down a fair conduct of life, and one not easy to follow.”
― Rudyard Kipling, quote from The Man Who Would Be King
“The country isn’t half worked out because they that governs it won’t let you touch it. They spend all their blessed time in governing it, and you can’t lift a spade, nor chip a rock, nor look for oil, nor anything like that without all the Government saying — ‘Leave it alone and let us govern.’ Therefore, such as it is, we will let it alone, and go away to some other place where a man isn’t crowded and can come to his own. We are not little men, and there is nothing that we are afraid of except Drink, and we have signed a Contrack on that. Therefore, we are going away to be Kings.”
― Rudyard Kipling, quote from The Man Who Would Be King
“Boil ’em once or twice in hot water, and they’ll come as fair as chicken and ham.”
― Rudyard Kipling, quote from The Man Who Would Be King
“The wheel of the world swings through the same phases again and again. Summer passed and winter thereafter, and came and passed again.”
― Rudyard Kipling, quote from The Man Who Would Be King
“The Son of Man goes forth to war, A golden crown to gain; His blood-red banner streams afar— Who follows in his train?” I”
― Rudyard Kipling, quote from The Man Who Would Be King
Rudyard Kipling
Born place: in Bombay, India
Born date December 30, 1865
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“It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united."3”
― William B. Irvine, quote from A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
“Most addicts here, he says, come with an empty glass inside them;66 when they take heroin, the glass becomes full, but only for a few hours, and then it drains down to nothing again. The purpose of this program is to gradually build a life for the addict so they can put something else into that empty glass: a social network, a job, some daily pleasures. If you can do that, it will mean that even as the heroin drains, you are not left totally empty. Over time, as your life has more in it, the glass will contain more and more, so it will take less and less heroin to fill it up. And in the end, there may be enough within you that you feel full without any heroin at all.”
― Johann Hari, quote from Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
“All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.”
― Robert McKee, quote from Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
“Given the complexity of the chore, “escapees,” as free-floating fecal material is known in astronautical circles, plagued the crews. Below is an excerpt from the Apollo 10 mission transcript, starring Mission Commander Thomas Stafford, Lunar Module Pilot Gene Cernan, and Command Module Pilot John Young, orbiting the moon 200,000-plus miles from the nearest bathroom. CERNAN:…You know once you get out of lunar orbit, you can do a lot of things. You can power down…And what’s happening is— STAFFORD: Oh—who did it? YOUNG: Who did what? CERNAN: What? STAFFORD: Who did it? [laughter] CERNAN: Where did that come from? STAFFORD: Give me a napkin quick. There’s a turd floating through the air. YOUNG: I didn’t do it. It ain’t one of mine. CERNAN: I don’t think it’s one of mine. STAFFORD: Mine was a little more sticky than that. Throw that away. YOUNG: God almighty. [And again eight minutes later, while discussing the timing of a waste-water dump.] YOUNG: Did they say we could do it anytime? CERNAN: They said on 135. They told us that—Here’s another goddam turd. What’s the matter with you guys? Here, give me a— YOUNG/STAFFORD: [laughter]… STAFFORD: It was just floating around? CERNAN: Yes. STAFFORD: [laughter] Mine was stickier than that. YOUNG: Mine was too. It hit that bag— CERNAN: [laughter] I don’t know whose that is. I can neither claim it nor disclaim it. [laughter] YOUNG: What the hell is going on here?”
― Mary Roach, quote from Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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