"If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny."

-- Calvin Trillin

#Writing Quotes #Inappropriate Quotes

“I try my best to stay healthy, but I have the appetite of a nine-year-old boy, so I just pay for it in workouts.”

Source : "Chasing Life Actress Italia Ricci: Uncertainty and Sticking It Out". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“The real revolution is the revolution of values”
“Mental models are deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations, or even pictures of images that influence how we understand the world and how we take action.”
“I had to work in one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me.”
“Sometimes you gotta mess up a little bit to wake up”
“One of the small consolations of old age, if you are lucky, can be at least a partial recovery of innocence.”

Source : Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.7, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“When you sit with people you love, if you say something stupid, they call you on it - because they're honest with you and they're making you better. That's what we're as couches going to have here with our players. We're going to have an honest respect for one another, to make everyone maximize the potential they have. I expect the players to listen to me, and I'm going to listen to them. We've got to make each other better, and it's the way to create safety, because the players know you've got their backs. When you tell a player what you want, he will try to please you.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“All men are our brothers. As far as the discovery of the truth is concerned, they are all working for the same purpose; they may be separated by the accidents of space and time, and by the exigencies of race, religion, nationality, and other groupings; from the point of view of eternity they are working together.”

Source : George Sarton (1993). “Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B.C.”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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