"I learned words, I learned words; but half of them died from lack of exercise. And the ones I use often look at me with a look that whispers, Liar."

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Source : Norman MacCaig (2013). “The Many Days: Selected Poems of Norman MacCaig”, p.13, Birlinn

Norman MacCaig

#Liars Quotes #Exercise Quotes #Use Quotes

“The upshot is that to send its children to a school of even average quality, a family must outbid half of other similar families who are pursuing the same goal. And that's become dramatically more expensive because of the growth in median house size, which was in turn caused by higher spending at the top.”
“The more youth begin to recognize that they have a voice, the more change is possible.”
“Fill your brain with giant dreams so it has no space for petty pursuits.”
“The setting sun burned the sky pink and orange in the same bright hues as surfers' bathing suits. It was beautiful deception, Bosch thought, as he drove north on the Hollywood Freeway to home. Sunsets did that here. Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every pretty picture there could be an ugly story.”

Source : Michael Connelly (2012). “The Black Echo”, p.60, Hachette UK
“Truthfully, I just try to get as much rest and drink water like a fish every day. If I don't get enough rest, exercise and water to keep my body healthy, then the voice begins to suffer and it can't repair overnight from the previous day's work.”
“Hip-hoppers are not interpreting what hip-hop is, and when we do interpret it, we interpret it as something immature, unorganized, and outlaw.”
“That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.”

Source : John McEwen, Paula Rego (1992). “Paula Rego”
“There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.”

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