"The charms of money are distinctly under-represented in literature. There are no songs or poems extolling its virtues. This seems on the face of it strange. The claims of money to be celebrated in verse might well seem to be no less than those of faithful dogs, beautiful women, or jugs of wine."

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Source : "The decline and fall of science". Book by Celia Elizabeth Green, 1976.

Celia Green

#Beautiful Quotes #Dog Quotes #Song Quotes

“You knew that she wanted me to marry somebody else,and you never told me?" He appeared confused by my reaction. "It wasn't my place." "Maybe it wasn't your place as a tracker, but as the guy making out with me in this bed, yeah,I think it was your place to tell me that I'm supposed to marry someone else.”
“Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation.”
“Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.”
“After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that it became a seventh, and it got me to a place where I could play all these figures fairly easily. It was not an easy thing to work out.”
“The joy in catching butterflies is the joy of capturing - for an instant - utter beauty. The satisfaction of being able to let it go is immense.”
“And there'd be no more jokes in Music-halls To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume.”

Source : 'Blighters' (1917)
“I'll tell you what I hate - bands like My Chemical Romance.”

Source : Interview with Paul Mardles, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2007.
“I never thought I could win the French Open.”

Source : "Li Na of China keeps feet on ground after historic French Open victory" by Simon Cambers, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2011.

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