"I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily."

-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#Technology Quotes #Rooms Quotes #Internet Quotes

“I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy”
“I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me.”
“You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles appeared about Lanner and Strauss.”
“I consider myself fortunate that I am in the position to decide which is the most effective way to tell our stories.”
“Ye'll never best your fears until ye face them”

Source : Susanna Kearsley (2011). “Sophia's Secret”, p.133, Allison & Busby
“President Bush is often out there talking about the importance of staying the course, and about the sacrifice, but he has not attended a funeral of a soldier who has fallen in Iraq.”
“We scientists have fantasies of being uniquely qualified to make great discoveries. Alas, reality is cruel: most of us are replaceable. For the vast majority of scientific contributions, if scientist X hadn't achieved it that year, scientist Y would have achieved the same result or something very similar soon thereafter.”
“My twenties were great. Who didn't have fun in their twenties? But my attention was more out there, more about the surface stuff and the cosmetic stuff. I was always thinking, 'What do I need to do?' Now in my thirties, it's, 'What do I want to do?' I've just become more solid with my own identity. So whoever wants to say their twenties are better... Yes, they're fun, especially at night - better parties, better cocktails... not better sex though. Absolutely not. And whoever says that is lying because sex in your thirties and beyond is f**king out of this world.”

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