"A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you."

-- Elsa Maxwell

#Talking Quotes #Giving Quotes #Vacuums Quotes

“We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago.”
“Sin is not wrong doing, it is wrong BEING, deliberate and emphatic independence of God.”
“In sober mornings do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse”
“But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation, that is, than perpetual motion.”
“For a long time, I missed being in the courtroom every day. I missed trial work. It was so much a part of my life. It was what I did and who I was. But over the years I did find the opportunity to realize my childhood dream of writing crime fiction.”
“I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn't, but she always knows where I'll be. She doesn't need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me.”
“Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.”

Source : Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.10, Univ of California Press
“I am a huge, huge Ronnie Milsap fan. I have been for a long time.”

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