"It did seem hard to be doing something heroic while everyone was too busy to notice."

-- Frances Hardinge

#Heroic Quotes #Busy Quotes #Too Busy Quotes

“All the home I know is a hotel. Why, I don't even have a dog... I don't know the first thing about cooking or taking care of a house.”
“I met many Russians over the years who were convinced my brothers and I were a cabal, pulling strings behind the scenes to shape American policy. The Soviets had no conception of how a pluralistic democracy works and believed elected officials, up to and including the president of the United States, were only figureheads acting out the roles dictated to them by the real "powers that be" - in this case, my family.”

Source : David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.329, Random House
“I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.”

Source : "Juno Temple Talks LITTLE BIRDS, Sexuality vs. Violence in Film, and Playing a Fairy in MALEFICENT" by Christina Radish, collider.com. August 28, 2012.
“My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my imagination.”
“There are many possible approaches to Australian garden design, and they all reflect the designer's individual response to gardens. For my part, I love all things most gardeners abhor... I like the whole thing to be as wild as possible, so that you have to fight your way through in places...”
“You're the cutest thing that I ever did see I really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree”
“Be not with honor's gilded baits beguil'd, Nor think ambition wise, because 'tis brave; For though we like it, as a forward child, 'Tis so unsound, her cradle is the grave.”
“Suppose one who had always continued blind be told by his guide that after he has advanced so many steps he shall come to the brink of a precipice, or be stopped by a wall; must not this to him seem very admirable and surprising? He cannot conceive how it is possible for mortals to frame such predictions as these, which to him would seem as strange and unaccountable as prophesy doth to others. Even they who are blessed with the visive faculty may (though familiarity make it less observed) find therein sufficient cause of admiration.”

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