"When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work? If I were you, I'd just go and lie on a beach somewhere.' And I'd answer, 'Well, I wanted to make something of my life."

-- Gloria Vanderbilt

#Beach Quotes #Lying Quotes #Cities Quotes

“As long as His Majesty is sick, I will move my bed to his chambers, the better to care for him.”
“A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.”
“I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . . In great art, this conflict is hidden, it is unresolved. All that is bursting with energy is disturbing - not perfect.”
“I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to.”
“I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends.”
“Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!”
“I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.”
“The nearest we approach God ...is as creative beings. The poet , by echoing the primary imagination , recreates. Through his work he forces those who read him to do the same, thus bringing them... nearer to the actual being of God as displayed in action .”

Source : "The Penguin Book of Religious Verse" by R. S. Thomas, (p. 8), 1963.

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