"I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life."

-- Tracy Chevalier

#Taken Quotes #Library Quotes #Bliss Quotes

“Yes, I don't think I shall ever become Prime Minister. Hard as that is to swallow, I tell you one person who is very happy always to see me say that, and that's my wife.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I was back on track, raring to go and then the insomnia kicked in. When you don't sleep, your faculties are not as sharp as they would normally be. My memory has been affected, I'm not as mentally agile as I would be if I were sleeping properly. I can't work because to act you need to be able to learn your lines and I can't do that at the moment. Insomnia is awful. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.”

Source : Thomas Love Peacock (1875). “The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Including His Novels, Poems, Fugitive Pieces, Criticisms, Etc”, p.208
“The most powerful teaching of children is by the example of their parents.”
“Comparing yourself to somebody else is like comparing yourself to a bird.”
“We are all Africans under the skin.”
“What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never occur to me.”
“My Daddy was left-handed, and I was left-handed when I was little. In fact, I was left-handed all the way to high school. Then I switched over to right-handed cause I wanted to play shortstop.”

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