"Make good use of bad rubbish."

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Source : Elisabeth Beresford (2011). “The Wombles Go round the World”, p.127, A&C Black

Elisabeth Beresford

#Work Quotes #Use Quotes #Rubbish Quotes

“Surely you donâ€™t disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You donâ€™t really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!”
“9/11 was my first day teaching at Harvard University. My classes were all canceled and I got back to town two days later. I'm one of those people who doesn't think the world has changed any at all since 9/11. It just seemed to be almost inevitable, something like that. That's one of the reasons why the backstory of Fay Grim goes all the way back into the '80s. I was trying to sketch out the continuity of all this hanky-panky between the security agencies of the world.”
“Organizations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control.”
“When you have the enthusiasm and the passion, you end up figuring how to excel.”
“The human body is an incredible machine, but most people only get out of that machine what their mind allows them to.”
“To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense”

Source : Freya Stark (1974). “Letters: The furnace and the cup, 1914-30”
“She's not impressed by your fancy car. She got a body so she's snotty and she don't care who you are. So don't get mad and dis her reputation Callin' her a floozy, any conversation. Mad grammar, backstabber, girls they wanna be her. But like Stevie Wonder, none of y'all can see her!”
“There's a team of filmmakers who follow me in the streets when I'm finding these models, to give me a sense of legitimacy to a casual stranger. This is New York City. No one's going to follow you back to your studio.”

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