"Basically, I'm a people pleaser who has a knack for disappointing."

-- Kevin Nealon

#People Quotes #Knack Quotes #Disappointing Quotes

“You know your path, child, now follow it.”
“It can be boring to see the same players winning every time.”
“Nature is the common, universal language, understood by all.”

Source : Kathleen Raine (1989). “Selected Poems”, p.6, SteinerBooks
“Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.”
“You must overcome any shyness and have a conversation with the librarian, because he can offer you reliable advice that will save you much time. You must consider that the librarian (if not overworked or neurotic) is happy when he can demonstrate two things: the quality of his memory and erudition and the richness of his library, especially if it is small. The more isolated and disregarded the library, the more the librarian is consumed with sorrow for its underestimation. A person who asks for help makes the librarian happy.”
“Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.”
“How sad that we can now go up in aeroplanes and see that there are no gods upon the clouds.”

Source : Gavin Pretor-Pinney (2007). “The Cloudspotter's Guide: The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds”, p.33, Penguin
“In my experience, whatever happens clings to us like barnacles on the hull of a ship, slowing us slightly, both uglifying and giving us texture. You can scrape all you want, you can, if you have money, hire someone else to scrape, but the barnacles will come back or at least leave a blemish on the steel.”

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