"clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all."

-- David Mitchell

#Clock Quotes #Disagreement Quotes

“People love to hear the mistakes you've made.”
“I'm the hardest person to buy a gift for.”

Source : "Stacy Keibler’s Sexy And Speedy Beauty Look". Interview with Dana Oliver, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2011.
“We do not live in a time when knowledge can be extended along a pathway smooth and free from obstacles, as at the time of the discovery of the infinitesimal calculus, and in a measure also when in the development of projective geometry obstacles were suddenly removed which, having hemmed progress for a long time, permitted a stream of investigators to pour in upon virgin soil. There is no longer any browsing along the beaten paths; and into the primeval forest only those may venture who are equipped with the sharpest tools.”
“Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.”
“But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who is listening to me; and, if I stop to consider what is proper to be said to this or that person, I shall soon come to doubt whether any part at all is proper.”

Source : Thomas De Quincey (2009). “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar”, p.107, The Floating Press
“No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.”
“Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.”
“It came so soon and so fast. It's just overwhelming. Every time I think about it, I just can't believe it.”

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