"The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'."

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Source : Phillip Lopate (2004). “Getting Personal: Selected Writings”, p.149, Basic Books

Phillip Lopate

#Beach Quotes #Fun Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“You know that you don't have all the answers, and the unknown is the best place where you would want to be as an artist, not knowing. That actually leads you to ask questions, and it continuously feeds itself.”
“Either I act or I die.”
“Sometimes I pick up the phone, listen to cold caller alias name, repeat it several times in an incredulous tone and then - bam! - pretend to recognise them. I ask them if they remember the hell of a time we had at the 1985 summer camp when we set fire to the wooden shed, and I keep making things up and go on and on until they end up terminating the call.”
“When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.”

Source : Claude Bernard “Experimental Medicine”, Transaction Publishers
“People always talk about Ronaldinho, and everything but I didnt see him today - I saw Henrik Larsson. Two times he came on - he changed the game, that is what killed the game - sometimes you talk about Ronaldinho and Etoo and people like that, you need to talk about the proper footballer who made the difference and that was Henrik Larsson tonight”
“He loved the soothing hour, when the last tints of light die away; when the stars, one by one, tremble through Ã¦ther, and are reflected on the dark mirror of the waters; that hour, which, of all others, inspires the mind with pensive tenderness, and often elevates it to sublime contemplation.”

Source : Ann Radcliffe (2015). “The Mysteries of Udolpho”, p.9, Simon and Schuster
“Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors.”
“He stole my music but he gave me my name.”

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