"Remember the waterfront shack with the sign FRESH FISH SOLD HERE. Of course it's fresh, we're on the ocean. Of course it's for sale, we're not giving it away. Of course it's here, otherwise the sign would be someplace else. The final sign: FISH."

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Source : Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

Peggy Noonan

#Ocean Quotes #Giving Quotes #Water Quotes

“Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.”
“Science is science, but a girl must get her hair done.”

Source : "Fictional character: Stephanie 'Steve' Clayton". "Tarantula", www.imdb.com. June 26, 1955.
“Our global institutional arrangements - the basic ground rules that govern our world economy - are human-made. They don't exist naturally, nor are they God-given. We make these rules, those of the WTO [World Trade Organization] Treaty for instance, which fill tens of thousands of pages. These words have been strung together by human beings and are also interpreted and enforced by human beings.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“I find that discussing an idea out loud is often the way to kill it stone dead.”
“I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.”
“It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any force of logic cure myself at this date, when it has become second nature.”

Source : Thomas Carlyle, Clyde de L. Ryals, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Kenneth J. Fielding, Ian Campbell (1997). “The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: 1850”, Duke University Press Books
“Play is the royal road to childhood happiness and adult brilliance.”
“When we signed with Warner Bros., they knew what they were getting. They knew they weren't going to get some easily manipulated prepackaged pop group. That was not going to happen. What they wanted, I think, was the integrity that we had to offer. What they wanted was the kind of street cred or cache that R.E.M. could bring to them and the chance that we would give them a hit or two. What happened was we gave them a bunch of hits. And we became huge.”

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