"When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot of writing by putting something in the ground."

-- Jamaica Kincaid

#Writing Quotes #Garden Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I don't got that kind of money man, commercials only pay so much (inaudible).”
“Being on stage makes me come to life. When all eyes are on you, they're watching every move you make.”
“This marketplace where people can buy insurance who don't have it today, a competitive marketplace - that's an idea that both sides embrace.”

Source : "Sen. Graham & David Axelrod on "This Week"". "This Week" with Jake Tapper, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 14, 2010.
“... hunger and cold, ill-health and pain are nothing. They pass. The thing that remains is ignorant criticism, well-meaning but futile advice, the contempt of a subordinate, the feelings of the underdog.”
“As one, the shapechangers turned and looked at me. I wondered what they'd do if I asked to borrow a cup of sugar.”
“I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.”
“It is better to give a lick than receive one.”

Source : Bo Jackson, Dick Schaap (1990). “Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer”, Doubleday Books
“What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally. The meaning of life is to be found in passionâ€”romantic passion, religious passion, passion for work and for play, passionate commitments in the face of what reason knows to be meaningless.”

Source : Robert C. Solomon (2006). “Spirituality for the Skeptic: The Thoughtful Love of Life”, p.76, Oxford University Press

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