"My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing."

-- Maggie Smith

#Thinking Quotes #Careers Quotes #Pigeons Quotes

“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.”
“Take emceeing, one of the foundations of hip-hop culture. A guy grabs a mic, steps up on stage and becomes a spokesman; the voice of the people. If anything, that might be the strongest similarity between hip-hop and comic books, with super heroes, like many rappers, fighting to make a change.”

Source : Source: www.highsnobiety.com
“We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.”
“As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor. ...The scientific actor is an even worker. Any one may achieve on some rare occasion an outburst of genuine feeling, a gesture of imperishable beauty, a ringing accent of truth; but your scientific actor knows how he did it. He can repeat it again and again and again. He can be depended on.”
“Babies are such a nice way to start people.”

Source : "Bewitched: Santa Comes to Visit and Stays and Stays". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1969.
“When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.”
“I'm growing fonder of my staff; I'm growing dimmer in the eyes; I'm growing fainter in my laugh; I'm growing deeper in my sighs; I'm growing careless of my dress; I'm growing frugal of my gold; I'm growing wise; I'm growing yes, I'm growing old!”

Source : John Godfrey Saxe (1860). “The Money-king: And Other Poems”, p.34
“There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close.”

Source : "Building civilisation". Interview with Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2006.

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