"If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious."

-- Chris Cleave

#Thinking Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Serious Quotes

“When I was training to be a pilot, there was a large section in the book on how to drop mail from the plane.”
“The typical nature photograph shows a butterfly on a pretty flower. The conservation photograph shows the same thing, but with a bulldozer coming at it in the background.”
“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.”
“The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.”
“Some jobs are so dirty you can only send in someone who has the finely honed hatred of liberals acquired at elite universities to do them.”
“I've always been quite thrifty. I can't bear to spend hundreds of pounds on designer clothes. I shop in second-hand shops in Portobello Road and go to Sue Ryder.”
“Disneyland is a work of love.”
“In the experimental sciences, the epochs of the most brilliant progress are almost always separated by long intervals of almost absolute repose.”

Source : François Arago, Robert GRANT (F.R.A.S.), Baden Powell, William Henry SMYTH (Rear Admiral.) (1857). “Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men ... Translated by ... W. H. Smyth ... the Rev. Baden Powell ... and R. Grant”, p.265

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