"She wasn't ready to settle down, she told her friends. That was one way of putting it. Another was would have been that she had not found anyone to settle down with. There had been several men in her life, but they hadn't been convincing. They'd been somewhat like her table - quickly acquired, brightened up a little, but temporary. The time for that kind of thing was running out, however. She was tired of renting."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Love Quotes #Running Quotes #Tired Quotes

“Your wig steers the gig.”
“I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school.”
“Why spend a day in the library when you can learn the same thing by working in the laboratory for a month?”

Source : "Frank H. Westheimer, major figure in 20th century chemistry, dies at 95". news.harvard.edu. April 19, 2007.
“I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.”
“A constant tension exists between an individual's interests, personal needs, and skills, and what the organization requires of her. We've all asked ourselves, How much of my own agenda should I sacrifice in order to help the rest of the staff meet the company's goals?”
“Through my life, [there have been] a lot of devils and a lot of situations, so I'm just goin' hard, maintaining, regardless of what people got to say about Ace Hood.”

Source : Source: djbooth.net
“I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it”
“Evil is near. Sometimes late at night the air grows strongly clammy and cold around me. I feel it brushing me. All that the Devil asks is acquiescence not struggle, not conflict. Acquiescence.”

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