"Precision about language can be really, really annoying. It can make you miss the point of what the other person is saying altogether."

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Source : Dana Reinhardt (2009). “How to Build a House”, p.173, Wendy Lamb Books

Dana Reinhardt

#Missing Quotes #Language Quotes #Annoying Quotes

“I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow [perhaps William Lowndes], who used to say, `Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves.”
“I donâ€™t expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired.”
“Love is one of the true mysteries,' he said at last. 'The truest and the deepest of all. One thing, Maerad: to love is never wrong. It may be disastrous; it may never be possible; it may be the deepest agony. But it is never wrong.”
“False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection.”
“My father has made a museum with my cuttings and photographs.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars.”
“This is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that a date always comes first.”
“We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it.”

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