"Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work."

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Source : "Idle breaks" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2005.

Tom Hodgkinson

#Sleep Quotes #Hard Work Quotes #Successful Quotes

“Writers are nothing but beggars with a good line.”
“In short, evolution is as close to being a scientific fact as is possible for any theory, given that science is open - ended and no one can predict with certainty what may change in the future. The prospect that evolution by natural selection, at least as a broad mechanism, will be overthrown in the future is about as likely as the prospect of finding out some day that the Earth is really flat. Unfortunately, those who regard these scientific facts as a threat to faith have chosen to distort and misrepresent them to the public.”
“I think the people that are best at something, they don't think about it much. That's the whole key to being good at anything.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“Those times, I tried to think of something happy, something I'd liked - but not something I loved, for that made it worse.”

Source : Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.149, Dial Press
“Love that does not know of suffering is not worthy of the name.”
“It's not so much about how good a player you are, its how cool you are.”
“Our shows are packed with laughter and light-hearted songs to lift the listener from their everyday life. We encourage the audience to participate in any way.”
“What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.”

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