"How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass."

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Jennifer Michael Hecht

#Grass Quotes #Prozac Quotes #Pops Quotes

“You can learn from anyone even your enemy.”
“I've met Bob Dylan's bodyguards, and if Steve Earle thinks he can stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table, he's sadly mistaken,”
“I want to do some things before I have children, because when I have children it's not going to happen. I've done bungee jumping, I've done the running with the bulls, I guess sky diving is the last thing on my list.”

Source : Source: soccerlens.com
“Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!”

Source : Ada Cambridge (2015). “The Manor House: The Hand in the Dark and Other Poems”, p.192, Library of Alexandria
“I have always been very interested in landscape... I find that all natural forms are a source of unending interest - tree trunks, the growth of branches from the trunk, each finding its own individual air-space.”
“Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest.”
“... Tarrasch's 'dogmas' are not eternal truisms, but merely instructional material presented in an accessible and witty form, those necessary rudiments from which one can begin to grasp the secrets of chess ...”
“In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic medical narrative that conceals the remorselessness of pathology, the intractable fact of human vulnerability, and the inevitable inadequacies of medicine. To many of the participants in the medical drama, aggressive treatment - even when it fails - represents a quasi-religious quest for immortality and meaning.”

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