"I know what people say, that water's a lot like air. Â Do you charge for air? Well, of course not. Â Well, youÂ shouldn't charge for water. Â Okay, watch what happens you won't have any water"

-- T. Boone Pickens

#Air Quotes #Water Quotes #People Quotes

“You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.”

Source : "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.
“I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.”
“And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness”
“At school I fought sometimes. Kids were saying that figure skating is sport for the girls. Then I had to prove them wrong.”
“I usually have a location and then I put the character there. I love place names. I think I'm tricking myself by being so specific - it suddenly becomes real to me. Just because I say it's Chicago, Illinois doesn't mean it's true, but place names sort of make me grounded and then I can put some people there.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors.”
“The rest of the world cares about how we conduct our affairs because they then take that lead. Were the only leader in the world today. Some are wishing us well, others think that were down and are not going to get back up again, but they are all watching with great interest to see how we conduct our business over the next couple of years.”
“Messieurs, c'est les microbes qui auront le dernier mot." (Gentlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word.)”

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