"Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers."

-- Roderick Haig-Brown

#Men Quotes #Lakes Quotes #Sea Quotes

“Best friends listen to what you don't say.”
“The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood.”
“It's much harder to be a liberal than a conservative. Why? Because it is easier to give someone the finger than a helping hand.”

Source : Mike Royko (2014). “Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997”, p.2954, Agate Digital
“I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit.”
“Forwards are the gnarled and scarred creatures who have a propensity for running into and bleeding all over each other.”
“The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.”

Source : "Testimony" by Dmitri Shostakovich, translated by Antonina W. Bouis, New York: Limelight, (p. 156), 2004.
“Sourav's greatest asset is his ability to communicate. He is a naturally very confident person. He encourages his team, is a great motivator and a born captain. He is not the media's blue eyed boy because he is a very straightforward person, who never minces his words, instead he talks in a no nonsense manner to the press. He shares an extremely healthy rapport with his teammates. His leadership skills are also vouched for by the youngsters in the team. He has phenomenal brand value. He's the new-age Indian, an aggressive go-getter, full of self-belief, determination.”
“I guess I had what you could call an unconventional upbringing.”

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