"Language is my bugbear. Everyone says things now like 'I was sat' instead of 'I was sitting', which just sounds so ugly."

-- Penelope Keith

#Sitting Quotes #Ugly Quotes #Sound Quotes

“The first thing a writer has to do is find a new source of income.”

Source : Ellen Gilchrist (2013). “Falling Through Space”, p.107, Open Road Media
“Definitions get you into that time trap, and I'm very much more process-focused. Take Lucy, for example. Lucy is famous largely because she has almost a total skeleton. The more sophisticated we get with instruments, the more we can find out. Through CT scans of her skeleton, they now think she died falling out of a tree because of the way her bones are broken. If nineteenth and twentieth century technologies can retroactively transform our bodiment, what then do the technologies we now use do?”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world”
“Perfection is very difficult to achieve, and perfection was what I wanted in McDonald's. Everything else was secondary for me.”
“The honours system gets to grade people. Graded grains make finer rice.”

Source : "Sir Humphrey Reveals His Dusty Springfield Side" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2004.
“Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.”
“New York is the city of privilege. Here is the seat of the Invisible Power represented by the allied forces of finance and industry. This Invisible Government is reactionary, sinister, unscrupulous, mercenary, and sordid. It is wanting in national ideals and devoid of conscience... This kind of government must be scourged and destroyed.”
“Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.”

Source : William Cowper, “The Task: Book Vi. -- The Winter Walk At Noon”

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