"when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them."

-- Margaret Halsey

#Drinking Quotes #Flocks Quotes #Spokes Quotes

“I think the Winter Olympics are definitely on a smaller scale than the summer games, but with the inclusion of cool new sports like slopestyle skiing and snowboarding, it is going to breathe new life into them and attract a whole new crowd.”
“Convenient though it would be if it were true, Mozilla [Netscape 1.0] is not big because it's full of useless crap. Mozilla is big because your needs are big. Your needs are big because the Internet is big. There are lots of small, lean web browsers out there that, incidentally, do almost nothing useful. But being a shining jewel of perfection was not a goal when we wrote Mozilla.”

Source : Extract from interview with themes.org, www.jwz.org. 1998.
“When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when you stop writing, you find that's all you are - a spine, a row of rattling vertebrae, dried out like an old quill pen.”
“It never gets easier, you just go faster. To put it another way, training is like fighting with a gorilla. You donâ€™t stop when youâ€™re tired. You stop when the gorilla is tired.”
“I believe in myself. I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love.”
“Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work.”

Source : "The Brit dishing the dirt on America" by Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2008.
“A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.”
“The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.”

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