"It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score."

--

Source : Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.319, Delphi Classics

Hector Hugh Munro

#Birth Quotes #Poet Quotes #Chiefs Quotes

“People always talk about good time rock and roll, Chuck Berry or whatever, like this liberating force for feeling good. But what I need in my life is to be liberated into feeling bad. Not sad. I have plenty of sad. What I need is a place where I can spray anger in sparks like a gnarled piece of electrical cable. Just be mad at stuff and soak in the helplessness.”
“Pressure is calming to the nervous system.”
“It was and is always nice to work with the kids.”
“Millions for defense but not a cent for tribute.”

Source : Toast at dinner for John Marshall, Philadelphia, Pa., 18 June 1798.
“Your eyes are beautiful," he said, and she felt warm suddenly, warm in the sun that dappled through the treetops and rested on them in patches.”
“Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.”

Source : Laurence J. Peter (1986). “The Peter Pyramid, Or: Will We Ever Get the Point?”, William Morrow
“Once, I had so many scripts coming to me that I could hardly read them all.”
“If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.”

Source : Michael Mandelbaum (2005). “The Meaning Of Sports”, p.148, Hachette UK

You may also like:

Aldous Huxley
Writer
Ambrose Bierce
Journalist
Guy de Maupassant
Writer
Mark Twain
Author
O. Henry
Writer
Oscar Wilde
Writer
P. G. Wodehouse
Writer
Rudyard Kipling
Writer
Virginia Woolf
Writer