"I would have any one, who really and truly has leisure and ability, make verses. I think it a more refining and happy-making occupation than any other pastime accomplishment."

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Source : Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.128

Sara Coleridge

#Thinking Quotes #Accomplishment Quotes #Occupation Quotes

“I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party to the bitter end.”

Source : Edward Dmytryk (1978). “It's a hell of a life, but not a bad living”, Crown
“There seems to be such an insecurity with a lot of films. When they're made, you have to pack every moment to feel something and use the music in that way. That's something I just naturally don't feel.”
“The biggest scandal I was ever involved in was - in high school, at a basketball game, I shot and scored for the other team.”
“Beneath the blossoms with a pot of wine, No friends at hand, so I poured alone; I raised my cup to invite the moon, Turned to my shadow, and we became three.”

Source : "Drinking Alone in the Midnight" (eighth cent.) (translation by Elling Eide)
“He's not doing anything he shouldn't be doing, right?" "Like what?" "Like hitting on you." "Ew. No, of course not. He doesn't see me that way." Michael shook his head and went back to his coffee. "What? You think he does?" "Sometimes he looks at you a little... oddly, that's all. Maybe you're right. Maybe he just wants you for your blood." "Again, Ew! What's with you this morning?" "Not enough coffee.”
“I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.”
“I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.”
“Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields”

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