"Poets wish to profit or to please."

-- Horace

#Wish Quotes #Poet Quotes #Profit Quotes

“All I care about, to be honest, is surfing. I love surfing more than anything. To me, there's nothing like that.”
“Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy”
“It's about you putting in the work, practicing every day, and hopefully one day you write the song the whole world wants to get down to. And one day you're going to be sitting next to Ellen DeGeneres talking about how you broke records and rocked the Super Bowl!”
“To emotionally accept impending disaster, to attain the gut-level understanding that the power elite will not respond rationally to the devastation of the ecosystem, is as difficult to accept as our own mortality. The most daunting existential struggle of our time is to ingest this awful truth-intellect ually and emotionally-and continue to resist the forces that are destroying us.”
“It's funny, I do try to maintain health. I started doing Bikram yoga which is that hothouse yoga, the 105 degrees yoga for 90 minutes. It's great, you purge out all the sweat and you're drinking water.”
“In my father's language: "To create something out of nothing." That possibility exists in India even in old-world sectors like agriculture.”

Source : "Mukesh Ambani on cover of Newsweek". Newsweek Interview, www.hindustantimes.com. July 11, 2006.
“My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one”

Source : Amy Plum (2016). “Inside the World of Die for Me”, p.26, HarperCollins
“We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesnâ€™t have any.”

Source : Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1052, Simon and Schuster

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