"Although I usually think I know what I'm going to be writing about, what I'm going to say, most of the time it doesn't happen that way at all. At some point I get misled down a garden path, I get surprised by an idea that I hadn't anticipated getting, which is a little bit like being in a laboratory."

-- Lewis Thomas

#Writing Quotes #Garden Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I've never had the patience of a teacher.”
“One of the great joys this year and the year before has been how all of the people in this body, men and women, Republicans and Democrats, have worked together so well with our chairman and the chairman of the full committee to address the issues of housing for our soldiers.”
“I always believe that my greatest audience will come from 70-year-old Jewish men and Jewish women, but that's me from my experience of going to High Holiday services and being adored by the women with free candy in the back.”

Source : "Mark Feuerstein Dishes on Royal Pains". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. June 2, 2009.
“We are all carrying so many things in our life and inside ourselves. Often it feels there is no place to put them down. Where do you place the questions you carry”
“I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities.”
“Knowing the right questions is better than knowing all the right answers" Caleb from Pretty Little Liars (TV Show)”
“I've got miracle lyrical capability all in me / With the agility to escape a killer bee colony.”
“We sincerely hope that south Asian countries will respect and live in amity with each other, and achieve common development, and that south Asia will enjoy peace, stability and prosperity.”

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