Pete McCarthy famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I reckon if I can't spend the day sleeping, the next best thing is to spend it reading and drinking.
-- Pete McCarthy

#Reading #Drinking #Sleep
I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it's generally much easier to get a drink.
-- Pete McCarthy

#Reading #Library #Study
If you've had the right kind of education, it's amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about.
-- Pete McCarthy

#Guilt #Kind #Guilty
There are huge creative advantages in having huge chunks of time when no one can find you. Emails and phones have diluted the experience of travel.
-- Pete McCarthy

#Phones #Creative #Email

Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
You may be sitting in a room reading this book. Imagine one note struck upon the piano. Immediately that one note is enough to change the atmosphere of the room - proving that the sound element in music is a powerful and mysterious agent, which it would be foolish to deride or belittle.
If you haven't noticed yet, working sucks. Unless you are a racecar driver or an astronaut or Beyonce, working is completely and utterly devoid of awesome. It is hard, it lasts all day, the lighting is generally fluorescent, and, apparently, drinking at your desk is frowned upon. If you ever needed to ruin someone's fun, I mean really poop a party, just move things to the workplace. Fun terminated.
When the journey's over/There'll be time enough to sleep.
A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.
Dreams are not those which comes while we are sleeping, but dreams are those when u don't sleep before fulfilling them.
On eyes that watch as well as eyes that weep Descends the solemn mystery of sleep, Toiling and climbing to the very close, The weary Body, longing for repose, On the gained level of the day's ascent, Halts for the night and pitches there its tent.
Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.
The Sunflow'r, thinking 'twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t' excuse the blame; It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.

Pete McCarthy famous quotes

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