"3 people get stranded on a remote Island A Banker, a Daily Mail reader & an Asylum seeker All they have to eat is a box of 10 Mars bars The Banker says "Because of my expertise in asset management, I''ll look after our resources" The other 2 agree So the Banker opens the box, gobbles down 9 of the Mars bars and hands the last one to the Daily Mail reader He then says " I'd keep an eye on that Asylum seeker, he's after your Mars Bar"

-- Christopher Brookmyre

#Eye Quotes #Islands Quotes #Hands Quotes

“Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.”

Source : Mary Caroline Richards (1989). “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person”, p.134, Wesleyan University Press
“Being a 3-time Intercontinental champion doesn't make you a great wrestler, just like Larry King having 9 wives don't make him a great husband.”
“I am not a bibliophile but a humanophile: I look for rare human beings.”

Source : Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A perilous advantage: the best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, New Victoria Pub
“Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by teaching him a trade or by putting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livelihood and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and summit of charity's golden ladder.”
“If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water.”
“My father was a television director, and I always knew I wanted to be in the industry, but I had thought my role was behind the camera as opposed to in front.”

Source : "Philip Glenister: My family values". Interview with Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.
“I definitely have to keep stepping up to the plate and be aggressive when he does that.”

Source : "After Game 3 loss, Lance Stephenson says LeBron showing 'sign of weakness'" by Shandel Richardson, articles.sun-sentinel.com. May 25, 2014.
“The goal isn't more money. The goal is living life on your terms.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 24, 2010

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