"Almost before the big motor-car stopped, the girl sprang out."

-- Carolyn Wells

#Girl Quotes #Book Quotes #Car Quotes

“Trust yourself, because as Oprah says, doubt means don't every time”
“The besetting evil of our age is the temptation to squander and dilute thought on a thousand different lines of inquiry.”
“Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington.”
“You can't expect success. It's a process. Part of getting to success is failure.”

Source : "Diandra Asbaty, pro bowler". Interview with William Hageman, articles.chicagotribune.com. June 8, 2014.
“An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.”

Source : Jef Raskin (2000). “The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems”, p.6, Addison-Wesley Professional
“The Postal Service needs tools to modernize and compete. That is why today I am a cosponsor of H.R. 22, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act.”
“I didn't want it to be this way." "Yes, you did," she said, "because it is." "I just want to be with someone normal," he said. "I just want to have a normal life." "Excuse me," she said. "You're a little crazy," he said. "You're too old to act the way you do. You've got to grow up. You've got to take care of yourdelf. I'm afraid for you. You can't think that people are going to take care of you all the time.”

Source : Jeff Bridges, Bernie Glassman (2013). “The Dude and the Zen Master”, p.29, Penguin
“A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of comparison bloom, and three fields off, like a wounded partridge, crouches the principal verb, making one wonder as one picks it up, poor little thing, whether after all it was worth such a tramp, so many guns, and such expensive dogs, and what, after all, is its relation to the main subject, potted so gaily half a page back, and proving finally to have been in the accusative case.”

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