"Being poor is only romantic in books."

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Source : Sidney Sheldon (2007). “The dark side of midnight: featuring The other side of midnight, Rage of angels”

Sidney Sheldon

#Book Quotes #Poor Quotes

“The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.”
“On the Ning Nang Nong Where the Cows go Bong! And the Monkeys all say Boo! Theres a Nang Nong Ning Where the trees go Ping! And the tea pots Jibber Jabber Joo On the Nong Ning Nang All the Mice go Clang! And you just cant catch em when they do! So its Ning Nang Nong! Cows go Bong! Nong Nang Ning! Trees go Ping! Nong Ning Nang! The mice go Clang! What a noisy place to belong,Is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!”

Source : Spike Milligan, “On The Ning Nang Nong”
“Look up . . . and see them. The teaching stars, beyond worship and commonplace tongues.”

Source : Dorothy Dunnett (1999). “The Game Of Kings: The Lymond Chronicles Book One”, p.194, Penguin UK
“The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, The Magic Monkey - it was adapted from an old Chinese legend by a thirteen-year-old prodigy named Plato Chan with the help of his sister.”
“I'll never get a part in a huge action blockbuster.”
“Why don't you put your ego down for a while, Justin. It must be getting heavy.”
“Having a goal in your mind helps you manifest it in some way.”
“She was not, herself, hugely in favour of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult. Even cats managed it. But women acted as if they'd been given a medal that entitled them to boss people around. It was as if, just because they'd got the label which said "mother," everyone else got a tiny part of the label that said "child"...”

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