"If you don't dare, you are doomed to dullness..."

-- Shirley Conran

“I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.”
“Wouldn't it be terrible if you'd spent all your life doing everything you were supposed to do, didn't drink, didn't smoke, didn't eat things, took lots of exercise, all the things you didn't want to do, and suddenly one day you were run over by a big red bus, and as the wheels were crunching into you you'd say 'Oh my god, I could have got so drunk last night!' That's the way you should live your life, as if tomorrow you'll be run over by a big red bus.”

Source : "Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography". Book by Michael Parker, 2009.
“I want my world to be fun.”
“You looked at Stanford or Harvard, or the University of Colorado, these were powerful engines just turning out people ready to create and grow businesses.”
“You have to raise the bar. Give yourself a challenge. Ask yourself, 'How can one make the impossible materialise?'”
“In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range”
“It is a far greater happiness to obey no one than to rule the whole world.”
“Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.”

Source : "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 12, 2009.

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