"And now he's down this for me. He's made me famous. He's put my name on the world."

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Jenny Downham

#Names Quotes #World Quotes #Made Quotes

“Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.”
“Any physician who advertises a positive cure for any disease, who issues nostrum testimonials, who sells his services to a secret remedy, or who diagnoses and treats by mail patients he has never seen, is a quack.”

Source : The Great American Fraud p. 39. Collier and Sons (1905)
“When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.”
“My second ex-wife was really kind of like a ship passing in the night. Only she turned out to be the Exxon Valdez.”
“I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in the swing of your hips. My fingers will dig in you like quotation marks, blazing your limbs into parts of speech.”
“Since my first discussions of ecological problems with Professor John Day around 1950 and since reading Konrad Lorenz's "King Solomon's Ring," I have become increasingly interested in the study of animals for what they might teach us about man, and the study of man as an animal. I have become increasingly disenchanted with what the thinkers of the so-called Age of Enlightenment tell us about the nature of man, and with what the formal religions and doctrinaire political theorists tell us about the same subject.”
“Love is like mayonaisse: when it separates, you've got to throw it away and start again.”
“Everest is regarded as one of, if not the most challenging of human conquests. I was passionate about climbing and a great believer that one should always challenge their own perception of where their boundaries lie. Everest seemed like an irrational challenge for an Egyptian, so I embraced it wholeheartedly. This feeling grew stronger when I realized that no Egyptian had attempted, let alone stood, on the roof of the world. The desire and pride of representing my country and raising the Egyptian flag on the highest points on earth has been with me ever since.”

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