"I cannot remember a time when I was not enraptured or tortured by words. Always there have been words which, sometimes for their sound alone, sometimes for their sound and sense, I would not use. From a loathing of their grossness or sickliness, their weight or want of weight. Their inexactitude, their feeling of acidity or insipidity. Their action, not only on the intelligence but on the nerves, was instant ..."

-- Mary Butts

#Feelings Quotes #Nerves Quotes #Use Quotes

“Anything but the void. And so we keep hoping to luck into a winning combination, to tap into a subtle harmony, trying like lock pickers to negotiate a compromise with the 'mystery tramp,' as Bob Dylan put it....”
“I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.”
“Game of Thrones' is just incredible, what they pull off every week.”
“What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!”

Source : Robert Harris (2006). “Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome”, p.249, Simon and Schuster
“The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period.”
“Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.”
“I've had lots of offers of marriage and from women wanting to have my kids.”
“Nations have the wrong granularity. Theyâ€™re too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think about is competing.”

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