"They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure."

-- Florenz Ziegfeld

#Causes Quotes #Broke Quotes #Displeasure Quotes

“One needs a Seer's Vision and an Angel's voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure.”

Source : Sarojini Naidu, Makarand R. Paranjape (1996). “Sarojini Naidu, selected letters, 1890s to 1940s”
“Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.”
“When somebody is a little bit wrong - say, when a waited puts nonfat milk in your espresso macchiato, instead of lowfat milk - it is often quite easy to explain to them how and why they are wrong. But if somebody is surprisingly wrong - say, when a waiter bites your nose instead of taking your order - you can often be so surprised that you are unable to say anything at all. Paralyzed by how wrong the waiter is, your moth would hang slightly open and your eyes would blink over and over, but you would be unable to say a word.”
“How can you expect someone to get a good day's work if they are interrupted all day?”
“When I was 23, 24, I used to have a really bad runny nose, mucus, tons of acne, reddishness all over. A woman on a bus I took looked at me and said I was lactose intolerant. (She said), 'Stop dairy for three days, and all this is going to go away.' I stopped dairy, and sure enough it was gone three days later, never to return except when I get dairy accidentally.”
“Please say this gas bill is just an estimate”
“Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of expression; that cries out to the imagination, and is the nurse of the invention whereof we term necessity the mother.”

Source : Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”

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