"I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain."

-- Mose Allison

#Writing Quotes #Brain Quotes #Down And Quotes

“But in America, if you're an atheist, you lose.”
“Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example, are not scheduled for leap-second dates. But society as a whole neither needs that obsessive time measurement nor is well served by it.”

Source : " The 'leap second' is a timely reminder" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.
“The height of foolishness is to discard an opportunity without full investigation”
“Even the most powerful human being has a limited sphere of strength. Draw him outside of that sphere and into your own, and his strength will dissipate.”
“So we came to the Ritz hotel and the Ritz Hotel was divine. Because when a girl can sit in a delightful bar and have delicious champagne cocktails and look at all the important French people in Paris, I think it is divine.”
“"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.”

Source : George Edward Woodberry (1933). “Selected letters of George Edward Woodberry”
“Stefan G. Bucher is a man possessed.”
“No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes.”

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