"Safety was not a big thing when I was growing up. A seat belt was something that got in the way: 'Ma, the seat belt is digging into my back.' 'Stuff it down into the seat. And roll those windows up, you're letting the smoke out'"

-- Margaret Smith

#Growing Up Quotes #Safety Quotes #Stuff Quotes

“The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.”

Source : Merce Cunningham, Jacqueline Lesschaeve (1985). “The Dancer and the Dance”, Marion Boyars
“Don't think she can breathe over there, chief." drawled Shaun. "Pretty sure she hasn't kicked the oxygen habit yet..”
“I have a number of famous quotes, and one of them is, if you get knocked down, get back up again. I don't really feel like I want to let anything ultimately defeat me.”

Source : "The 'I Am' Q&A". www.cnbc.com.
“Parliamentary committees are becoming more independent, tactics are becoming more sophisticated, and industries that don't want to be bushwhacked by some damaging legislative amendment will have to spend more time and money watching the Hill.”
“It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any definite conclusions be drawn from it.”

Source : Nobel Lecture, 1922.
“Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was.”
“The thing with the comics is that you have license to go down every alley your brain can think of.”
“Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.”

Source : "The way we live now: questions for Karen Armstrong; Talking religious liberties". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. April 04, 2004.

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