"Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing."

-- Muriel Spark

#Singing Quotes #Conclusion Quotes #Wells Quotes

“Back then, as a kid, you could really just do whatever you wanted until your parents got home.”

Source : "Paper Girls: Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang talk Volume 2". Interview With Nivea Serrao, ew.com. November 29, 2016.
“A willing mind makes a hard journey easy.”

Source : Philip Massinger (1779). “The Dramatick Works of Philip Massinger...”, p.88
“Be afraid of a dignified man when he is hungry and a wicked man when his belly is full.”
“What objectivity and the study of philosophy requires is not an 'open mind,' but an active mind - a mind able and eagerly willing to examine ideas, but to examine them criticially.”
“Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art”
“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.”
“The world needs women to redefine what it means to be a person of power”
“As I have discovered again and again, things are never as bad (or as good) as they seem at the time.”

Source : Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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