"We were wavering around like a ship without a sail."

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Judy Holliday

#Sailing Quotes #Wavering Quotes #Ships Quotes

“It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved. Not the horror of performing on the piano in front of an assembled audience of quiet people. I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great . This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.”
“The churning of a human mind is unpredictable, as is the anatomy of the human heart.”

Source : "Turing & Burroughs". Book by Rudy Rucker, www.rudyrucker.com. 2012.
“Pattycake, pattycake, baker's man; good morning, madam, I'm a psychiatrist”
“As I got older I looked at the world and I realised, we need armour. So my jewellery and clothes became my armour”
“(He) was in love with the idea of revolution. Men like that, even when they turn their backs on their party and their comrades, can never let go of the idea: it's the secret god that rules their hearts. It is what makes them come alive; they revel in the danger, the exquisite pain. It is to them what childbirth is to a woman, or war to a mercenary.”

Source : Amitav Ghosh (2014). “The Hungry Tide: A Novel”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“How is it that we have created an economic system that tells us it is cheaper to destroy the earth and exhaust its people than to nurture them both? Is it rational to have an pricing system which discounts the future and sells off the past? How did we create an economic system that confused capital liquidation with income?”
“Firmness in all aspects is a most important quality when gardening, not only in planting but in pruning, dividing and tying up. Plants are like babies, they know when an amateur is handling them.”

Source : Margery Fish (2011). “We Made a Garden”, p.39, Pavilion Books
“I was terrified of vault, like literally I hated it. I had a fear of running as fast as I could at a solid object, which is I think a normal fear to have because nobody would really want to do that. Once I got over the fear of running into the table I just kind of relaxed and now it's like autopilot. I love it.”

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