"If a potato can produce vitamin C, why can't we? Within the animal kingdom only humans and guinea pigs are unable to synthesize vitamin C in their own bodies. Why us and guinea pigs? No point asking. Nobody knows."

-- Bill Bryson

#Animal Quotes #Pigs Quotes #Asking Quotes

“For every person seeking greatness, there are hundreds more charged with safeguarding mediocrity.Â If you want to be wealthy, stop taking financial advice from broke people.”
“In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.”
“Notice what happens when you follow your intuitive feelings. The result is usually increased energy and power, and a sense of things flowing.”
“But don't forget who you really are. And I'm not talking about your so-called real name. All names are made up by someone else, even the one your parents gave you. You know who you really are. When you're alone at night, looking up at the stars, or maybe lying in your bed in total darkness, you know that nameless person inside you...Your muscles will toughen. So will your heart and soul. That's necessary for survival. But don't lose touch with that person deep inside you, or else you won't really have survived at all.”

Source : Louis Sachar (2013). “Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Greenlake”, p.89, A&C Black
“Conquer your mind and conquer the world.”
“I loved when my boyfriends would call me their Amazon girl.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark, read my books.”
“We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.”

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