"Madness to us means reversion; to such people as Una and Lena it meant progression. Now their uncle had entered into a land beyond them, the land of fancy. For fifty years he had been as they were, silent, hard-working, unimaginative. Then all of a sudden, like a scholar passing his degree, he had gone up into another form ..."

-- Djuna Barnes

#Uncles Quotes #Mean Quotes #Hard Work Quotes

“Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.”
“...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.”

Source : Song: We Can Work It Out
“I'm 53, and it's hard to get to the gym every day. If I know on Friday I'm going to be wrestling, then I don't want to look bad, so it gives me motivation. Plus, once you're in motion, it's a lot easier to stay in motion.”

Source : "Q&A with Kevin Nash, former WWE star wrestling in Hagerstown on Friday". Interview with Aaron Oster, www.baltimoresun.com. March 28, 2013.
“Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.”
“It would be just like programmers to shorten 'the year 2000 problem' to 'Y2K'- exactly the kind of thinking that created this situation in the first place.”
“In France, they make you feel that you cannot be two things at the same time. You can't be French and Arabic; you can't be French and Muslim.”

Source : Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2016.
“When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man.”
“I'm just a guy. I get treated like I'm famous but I don't take it seriously. I take the time people take out to check me out very, very seriously.”

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