"No Southern people ever seem to possess the energy of their Northern brothers, and in Sicily a dolce far niente life is much enjoyed. Time is no object. According to Pliny, Aristhomacus watched the life of the bee carefully for fifty-eight years, which is just the sort of work a Sicilian of to-day would like."

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Source : Mrs. Alec-Tweedie (Ethel) (1904). “Sunny Sicily: Its Rustics and Its Ruins”

Alec-Tweedie

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“The high ideals and promises you once dressed the future in are dancing in the embers with the wind.”
“How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?”

Source : Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. March 1, 2001.
“I approach cooking from a science angle because I need to understand how things work. If I understand the egg, I can scramble it better. It's a simple as that.”
“Unfortunately, the administration's plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.”
“When you look at the damage that many of the policies that Donald Trump has proposed can do to our citizens of the US - you can compare him to Major Storms Harvey, Irma, Maria. We're talking about life or death issues and about repealing the Affordable Care Act. There are lives at stake. Something that would affect millions and millions of people. I think it's totally appropriate. Obviously, it's a metaphor. It's not to be taken literally. But I mean that when I talk about the damage and the trauma that has been brought into our lives because of his presidency, that that's very real.”

Source : Source: www.cosmopolitan.com
“Happiness is dog-shaped, I say.”

Source : Chapman Pincher (1995). “My Life as a Real Dog”, Kodansha Amer Incorporated
“Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas.”

Source : James S. A. Corey (2013). “Abaddon's Gate: Book 3 of the Expanse”, p.297, Hachette UK
“Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don't want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print. They don't want to go through the work of getting the damn book out. There is a huge difference.”

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