"The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare."

-- Michael Tippett

#Would Be Quotes #Figures Quotes

“You know as far as diet goes, for a while I was really obsessed with counting fat grams along with the rest of the world.”

Source : "Jean Gets Smart About Fitness and Diet". Interview with Candace A. Wedlan, articles.latimes.com. July 20, 1998.
“She remembered him smiling, and realized that time, that great old healer, had finally accomplished its work, and now, across the years, the face of love no longer stirred up agonies of grief and bitterness. Rather, one was left feeling simply grateful. For how unimaginably empty the past would be without him to remember.”

Source : Rosamunde Pilcher (2013). “The Shell Seekers”, p.432, Macmillan
“Oh, here's a clever one. Do you remember this question from the first test?It reads, 'What wrong with this statement?' And do you know what Constance wrote in reply? She wrote, 'What's wrong with you?”
“All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.”
“It's not about your greatness as an architect, but your compassion”
“People come up to me and say, 'Emo, do people really come up to you?'”
“I try to keep the martial arts up. It's a good thing, not just physically but also for your mind.”
“One of the manifestations of depression for me is that I lose my will. And I thereby lose my ability to focus. I don't think I'll ever have the day-to-day consistency in my performance that something like This American Life has. If I'm not depressed and I'm on and I can focus and I can think through something hard and without interruption and without existential emptiness that comes from depression, that gives me - not mania. But I exalt. I exalt in not being depressed.”

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