“For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.”
Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)
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American spiritual writer 1936Related quotes
“As long as you’re doing what it takes, training hard and eating right, that’s all that matters.”

“Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.”
Taanis Gedanken, 1896. Alle Verk, xii. 77.

“It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.”
Part 2, Chapter 3
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

“No matter how much money you earn, you can only eat three meals a day and sleep in one bed.”
On Nicolas Anelka, (July 1999) http://archive.is/20130109094446/markarbouine.tripod.com/quotes/quotes3.htm

“Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.”
Source: Dubliners

“If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.”
As quoted in Monk Magazine (1992-10).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print