"I don't know when it started - this thing - bit it's growing, muffling me, suffocating me like poison ivy. I grew into it. It grew into me. We blurred at the edges, became an amorphous, seeping, crawling thing."

-- Tabitha Suzuma

#Ivy Quotes #Poison Quotes #Growing Quotes

“If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.”

Source : Quoted in Bennett Cerf, Try and Stop Me: A Collection of Anecdotes and Stories, Mostly Humorous (1944). Although this is usually credited to Mizner, the Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 1941, quotes Bob Oliver: "If you steal from one man, it's plagiarism. If you steal from several, it's research."
“Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema.”
“When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.”

Source : Shana Alexander (1975). “Shana Alexander's State-by-State guide to women's legal rights”
“Ukraine is the instrument for Russia to test the West's 'red lines'”
“Gratitude is not a mere word; it is not a mere concept. It is the living breath of your real existence on earth.”
“As long as you are alive, you will either live to accomplish your own goals and dreams or be used as a resource to accomplish someone else's.”

Source : FaceBook post by Grant Cardone from Jan 17, 2017
“We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process.”
“I had been at the director's workshop for women at the AFI, which at the time was a great thing to do. I had always meant to direct, and for a variety of reasons that are hard to explain, I never did. I produced many things - there'll be people who tell you I directed through them - and of course I wrote. It took a divorce, a move back to New York and a kind of "now I can do anything" to say, "I really want to do this."”

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