"A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it."

-- Art Buchwald

#Want Quotes #Nervous Quotes #Breakdown Quotes

“It's fun to just skim through piles of books in the stacks of a library.”
“A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these elements move, propelled by electric motors, wind, water or by hand.”
“Solitude is rich but seldom hilarious.”

Source : Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.123, Island Press
“The whims of youth break all the rules.”
“Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqueÂ . Truth is too simple; it must always be arrived at in a complicated manner.”
“Not only do I admire Jordan's accomplishments and his phenomenal basketball ability, but also the way he has conducted himself on and off the court. I don't think there will ever be another player to have the same impact on the game of basketball as Michael Jordan.”
“Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?”

Source : Raymond Carver, Marshall Bruce Gentry, William L. Stull (1990). “Conversations with Raymond Carver”, p.41, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“I gotta think that one that becomes a philosophy of work, which is "no excuses."”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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