"Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia."

-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Writing Quotes #Pneumonia Quotes #Making Love Quotes

“We never thought we were. That's the important part.”
“If I were playing against Corey Perry, Iâ€™d probably want to hurt him in some painful and permanent way. And I think most of the rest of the league feels the same way.”
“Billions raised, billions spent. No idea where the money has gone. With a record like that the chancellor should be running for treasurer of the Labour Party.”
“The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all sorts of speeches of their own composition, or that of other authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to recognise his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so skilfully shall the whole be disguised.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 598-600, Curiosities of Literature, Professors of Plagiarism and Obscurity, 1922.
“I watched the way you watch when you know you want to remember.”
“For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.”
“The problem of transmitting scientific knowledge is a very difficult business.”

Source : "Interview with the 1988 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Jack Steinberger". 58th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, www.nobelprize.org. July 2008.
“current research is showing that true leaders enjoy using their power and are comfortable with it - so comfortable, in fact, that they don't mind sharing that control when it is appropriate to do so.”

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