"Sometimes my courage fails me and I think I ought to stop working, live in the country and devote myself to gardening. But I am held by a thousand bonds, and I don't know when I shall be able to arrange things otherwise. Nor do I know whether, even by writing scientific books, I could live without the laboratory."

-- Marie Curie

#Country Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“That's going to be on my headstone: 'He came. He wrote 'In the Air Tonight.' He... died.'”
“Women like to be scared, but they don't like the blood and the gore, and especially movies that have violence and torture involving women. Women don't want to see that, I can tell you for damn sure right now.”
“Why does everybody throw every troublesome thing into the river?”
“Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.”
“There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw. The other is the seed catalogues.”
“Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping.”
“You cannot fool an audience.”

Source : Marian Anderson (1956). “My Lord, what a Morning: An Autobiography”, University of Illinois Press
“When you're on a boat, 15 nautical miles off the coast and you're with a bunch of fishermen, they don't give two ***** about who you are.”

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