"Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t'have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air."

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Source : George Chapman (1990). “The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron”, p.35, Manchester University Press

George Chapman

#Life Quotes #Running Quotes #Wind Quotes

“The bicycle is its own best argument. You just get a bike, try it; start going with the thing and using it as it suits you. It'll grow and it gets better and better and better.”
“The natives of England are closing their doors to relationships with Asians and Africans or, for that matter, Turks and Spaniards. While the Africans and Asians on their part are increasingly closing their doors too and resentment at both sides is increasing. This trend can be dangerous. It can lead, sooner or later, to violence - even in this country, which is traditionally an opponent of violence.”

Source : Source: quod.lib.umich.edu
“Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.”
“The first thing you must do is forget that I'm Black. Second, you must never forget that I'm Black.”
“I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.”
“Cats virtually always underestimate human intelligence just as we, perhaps, underestimate theirs.”

Source : Roger A. Caras (1990). “Cat is Watching”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
“God finally caught his eye.”
“Despair kinda smells like burnt hair. Sounds great, but smells lousy. Now fear... fear you can taste! Let's see, fear kinda tastes like... like peaches, peaches covered with fresh bone marrow”

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