"I've been in New York only a few days and I have learned only two words of your language: one is Swell, and the other is Lousy. ... 'It's swell to be with you and excuse, please, my lousy English!"

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Source : Vicki Baum (1964). “It was all quite different: the memoirs of Vicki Baum”

Vicki Baum

#New York Quotes #Two Quotes #Language Quotes

“I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.”
“Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 555), 1895.
“Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty.”
“There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.”
“I want to be on the floor. I want to fight for the win.”
“If you can't fight and you can't flee, flow.”
“I saw that I was in danger of becoming ordinary, and I understood that from now on I would have to be vigilant.”

Source : FaceBook post by Steven Millhauser from Mar 30, 2014
“I play piano (bit of guitar) and I sing and I love to jam and harmonize with other musical people.”

Source : Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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