"I have a recurring nightmare that I wake up in a gutter with nothing. I've had it all my life. That's why I work, I think."

-- Kevin McCloud

#Thinking Quotes #Gutters Quotes #Wake Up Quotes

“I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.”
“Love is realizing that they are going to make mistakes but knowing you can't hold it against them.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“It is easy to get used to the morning news, habituated. But don't. The morning news is yours to alter.”
“The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives we led had shut in our faces.”
“I'm not alive to be right. I'm here to care, to heal, to understand”
“It ought to be considered a great misfortune, not only for individuals, but also for Houses and Congregations, to have everything in conformity with their wishes; to go on quietly, and to suffer nothing for the love of God. Yes, consider it certain that a person or a Congregation that does not suffer and is applauded by all the world is near a fall.”
“I met a girl who sang the blues and I asked her for some happy news, but she just smiled and turned away. And the three men I admire most, The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost, They caught the last train to the coast The day the music died.”

Source : "American Pie". Song by Don McLean, 1971.
“Every heat engineer knows he can design his heat engine reliably and accurately on the foundation of the second law [of thermodynamics]. Run alongside one of the molecules, however, and ask it what it thinks of the second law. It will laugh at us. It never heard of the second law. It does what it wants. All the same, a collection of billions upon billions of such molecules obeys the second law with all the accuracy one could want”

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