"Well, I never danced with the 'Pips' - they didn't let me dance!"

-- Gladys Knight

#Let Me Quotes #Wells Quotes

“My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.”
“My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.”

Source : Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Stepping Westward”, p.50, Pan Macmillan
“Mistakes don't scare me or bother me. If I feel like I made the same mistake twice, then I feel like I've really screwed up. But if I make one mistake and learn from it, hey, to me in the game of life it's just as important to know what doesn't work as what does. So I think mistakes are a good thing.”
“What I have learned about corporate capitalism, roughly, is that it is an act of theft, by and large, through which a very few live very high off the work, invention, and creativity of very many others. It is the Grand Larceny of our particular time in history, the Grand Larceny in which a future of freedom which could have followed the collapse of feudalism was stolen from under our noses by a new bunch of bosses doing the same old things”
“If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.”
“History may be accurate. But archaeology is precise.”

Source : "Organized hunts for Civil War relics raise dust between participants, historians" by Brigid Schulte, www.sfgate.com. April 30, 2006.
“I suppose if you were inclined to misbehave, you wouldn't exactly tell me the truth anyway." "Darling, you have a brother fond of holding a gun on me, a sister who can shoot anything that moves, two other brothers who've repeatedly threatened to thrash me, and a grandmother who buys off constables. Do you really think I'm fool enough to antagonize them by committing adultery?" It was hard not to smile at that. "An excellent point." "I think so.”

Source : Sabrina Jeffries (2011). “How to Woo a Reluctant Lady”, p.203, Simon and Schuster
“The only way I thought I could do a greatest hits album is to do it in a prison where they have no f**king idea who I am. I'd do what I consider the best of those old, early CDs before I did DVDs. A women's prison would be even better, but it has to be English-speaking.”

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