"Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers."

-- Tom Stoppard

#Today Quotes #England Quotes #Goalkeepers Quotes

“Celia." he says without looking up at her, "why do we wind our watch?" "Because everything requires energy," she recites obediently, eyes still focused on her hand. "We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.”

Source : Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.22, Random House
“A million dollars sounds like a lot, I know. Especially when you're young. But you can't let money erode your principles or you'll wind up with nothing.”
“I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.”
“I think the most effective way to run a kitchen is to teach, not to just yell.”
“SEO is not synonymous to JUNK E-MAIL.”
“Every artist that becomes famous has a team, and needs to convince someone to believe in them enough to have others rally around them to achieve stardom. If I can be that person, then I am happy to do it.”
“Many Americans follow pro basketball from November through June, for reasons that I found unexplainable, other than the fact that they were overly fascinated with soaring armpits.”
“So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.”

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