"The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock."

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Source : Katharine Graham (1998). “Personal History”, Vintage Books

Katharine Graham

#Rocks Quotes #Anxiety Quotes #Way Quotes

“I don't know whether it was his (Charlie Christian's) melodic lines, his sound or his approach, but I hadn't heard anything like that before. He sounded so good and it sounded so easy, so I bought me a guitar and an amplifier and said now I can't do nothing but play! Really, welding was my talent, I think, but I sort of swished it aside.”
“I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.”
“Unless I have enough personal power to keep commitments in my daily life, I will be unable to wield magical power. To work magic, I need a basic belief in my ability to do things and cause things to happen. That belief is generated and sustained by my daily actions.”
“DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back.”
“When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.”
“Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.”
“Those who seek to impress upon us that they are gentlemen will usually be found mistaken.”

Source : Eden Phillpotts (1934). “A year with Bisshe-Bantam”
“A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.”

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