"I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water."

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Source : Thomas Shadwell (1927). “The complete works of Thomas Shadwell”

Thomas Shadwell

#Fishing Quotes #Water Quotes #Company Quotes

“Despite the variety of my explorations, throughout it all it has been my contention that my responsibility as an artist is to work, to sing for my supper, to make art, beautiful and powerful, that adds and reveals; to beautify the mess of a messy world, to heal the sick and feed the helpless; to shout bravely from the roof-tops and storm barricaded doors and voice the specifics of our historic moment.”
“We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.”

Source : 'The Unbearable Bassington' (1912)
“The health of life on Earth depends on its oceans. But unless we save our seas from the growing mounds of pop bottles, cigarette butts and plastic trash, soon there won't be much healthy sea left.”
“No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.”

Source : James C. Dobson (2003). “The Wonderful World of Boys”, Tyndale House Pub
“In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.”

Source : Sam Houston (1943). “The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863: 1825-1863”
“My proposal now is to test a vaccine first on people who have been infected, and if you show some efficacy at this level, you might be able to go further to study uninfected people in a population with a high rate of infection.”
“To make it more familiar to me, I ended up treating my swordplay scenes like choreography. So it was, 'One and two and three and four and five, and turn and step and down and up and lunge.”
“I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.”

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