"The great irony to Dirk [Gently] is that he sees connections in everything, but the one thing he fails and struggles with most is connecting with other people."

-- Samuel Barnett

#Struggle Quotes #People Quotes #Connections Quotes

“I think we brought to the world, the United States anyway, the whole idea of boycotting as a nonviolent tactic. I think we showed the world that nonviolence can work to make social change.”
“Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural law . . . . It is the parent, and not the child of society; the source of civility and a sort of seminary of the republic.”
“As always in a musical collaboration: One has to like each other. As simple as that.”

Source : Interview by Jason Gross, www.furious.com. May 1997.
“Marijuana is ten times more dangerous than twenty years ago.”
“Nobody believed the 'Food Network' could last. Even I was short sighted and thought to myself, 24 hours of food on TV? They'll run out of things to talk about in four days! But that wasn't true. 'Food Network' continues to get better and evolve.”
“Trying is just a noisy way of not doing something.”
“For all the sirens, game-show buzzers, and drum-rolls of life, it is the nature of men to die quietly.”

Source : DBC Pierre (2008). “Vernon God Little”, p.269, Faber & Faber
“Most of the preparedness happens during training every single day, so it's all about getting to a meet and being as relaxed as possible. Personally, I just try to stay in the crowd of people, just talking so my mind doesn't think only about swimming. That helps me to relax. And at this level, we all know what needs to be done once we jump in the pool”

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