"What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined."

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Source : Vernon Lee (1907). “Hortus Vitae: And Limbo”

Vernon Lee

#Mean Quotes #Leisure Quotes

“No one goes to Vegas for any sort of business. You go there to purely have fun, and as soon as you start getting in the vicinity, you feel the energy of the places. Normally as a DJ, I'm very much "working," even though I'm enjoying myself, but Vegas always brings out a little something extra in me. I've had my wildest nights there!”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare.”
“My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory would-be editors must endure before they can ascend the ladder and begin acquiring books on their own. I spent a year filing paperwork, writing copy, and typing rejection letters.”
“I like the glamorous indie rock look, like The Libertines. But you know, without the ***** needle sticking out of my arm.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Nothing else is going to matter if we kill the earth and we kill the food and we destroy the gene pool and there aren't any people around to enjoy the earth.”
“I remember a time when things were a lot more fun around here, when good was good and evil was evil, before things got fuzzy.”
“I am a collection of dismantled almosts.”
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