"I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women."

-- Stevie Smith

#Swimming Quotes #People Quotes #May Quotes

“We can collaborate with a Netscape employee or partner who's halfway around the world. We can distribute information and software to customers and shareholders, and get their feedback.”
“A man is not merely a man but a man among men, in a world of men. Being good at being a man has more to do with a manâ€™s ability to succeed with men and within groups of men than it does with a manâ€™s relationship to any woman or any group of women. When someone tells a man to be a man, they are telling him to be more like other men, more like the majority of men, and ideally more like the men who other men hold in high regard.”
“If there is a secret to writing, I havenâ€™t found it yet. All I know is you need to sit down, clear your mind, and hang in there.”
“I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.”
“Wherever a people have grown savage in arms so that human laws have no longer any place among it, the only powerful means of reducing it is religion.”
“I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.”
“Being a part of the crowd with incredible musicians onstage summoning the muse and delivering that to us - doesn't matter if it's an orchestra, two bluegrass banjo pickers, a solo singer, piano player, or Bruce Springsteen - when it all comes together, you can just feel as if you are a part of something bigger and grander than yourself.”
“The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!”

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