"I am asking you all not to be nettled with me for not answering your letter in spanish I read spanish very well but I don't write it. The image of Stanley Dixon sitting and pondering is one of the rewards of sea turtle research, and a thing I shall often sit and ponder."

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Source : Archie Fairly Carr (1967). “So Excellent a Fishe: A Natural History of Sea Turtles”

Archie Carr

#Writing Quotes #Marine Quotes #Turtles Quotes

“Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 26, 2014
“Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles.”

Source : Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.259, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole.”
“Courage isn't about knowing the path, it's about taking the first step.”
“I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.”
“Time is the only commodity that matters.”
“To me, Miami is like Hell and I'm Osiris when it comes to music - I'm underrated and I came through with this rare sound. "East" means east of Miami, which is South Beach. So I'm the "Osiris of the East", I became my own god in music, and I took over South Beach.”
“That's where I spent of lot of my high-school years -- in the closet. It wasn't too cramped, but you do get really hot.”

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