"There is nowhere else I'd rather be, nothing else I would prefer to be doing. I am at the beach looking west with the continent behind me as the sun tracks down to the sea. I have my bearings."

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Tim Winton

#Beach Quotes #Nature Quotes #Sea Quotes

“These troops know how to shoot and kill and I expect they will.”

Source : "New Orleans rocked by huge blasts". news.bbc.co.uk. September 2, 2005.
“I find that everything I do is demanding, like Jack Bristow is a complicated man and I do a lot of explaining in the show, it takes a lot of energy and concentration.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive, poetic and modulated; all our thoughts can be rendered with absolute clarity if we bother to put the right dots and squiggles between the words in the right places. Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking. If it goes, the degree of intellectual impoverishment we face is unimaginable.”
“It is impossible to forsee the consequences of being clever.”
“Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions.”
“It is one of the sublime provincialities of New York that its inhabitants lap up trivial gossip about essential nobodies they've never set eyes on, while continuing to boast that they could live somewhere for twenty years without so much as exchanging pleasantries with their neighbors across the hall.”
“Iraq is not about oil.”
“Failure is not the absence of success. Failure is the neglect of trying.”

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