"Every Monday morning I try to remember to say "Thank you, Lord. I'm not at the Senior Staff Meeting.""

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Source : Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk

Michael Longley

#Senior Quotes #Monday Quotes #Morning Quotes

“Acting coaches in Hollywood were always telling me to use my hands and body more. But that was never me. I just breathe and sometimes it doesn't look as if I'm doing that.”
“It is not as common as female/male prostitution, but yes my friends and I had female clients. But this is a request that most girls are not willing to do. No, we never saw it as anything different, because if ladies were paying for an escort, they were still considered our clients, and they were treated as such.”
“Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.”
“It is always the same with mountains. Once you have lived with them for any length of time, you belong to them. There is no escape.”

Source : Ruskin Bond (2003). “Rain in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas”, p.92, Penguin Books India
“Physics says: go to sleep. Of course you're tired. Every atom in you has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes nonstop from mitosis to now. Quit tapping your feet. They'll dance inside themselves without you.”

Source : Albert Goldbarth (1991). “Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology : Poems”, p.118, University of Georgia Press
“I was only halfway to the record and it seemed like it took me a long time. I feel like that one will never be broken. That record will never be touched.”
“A loss leads to victory, being fired leads to a dream job..I find comfort in believing that good things can grow out of tragedy.”
“Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up.”

Source : Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.298, Penguin

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