"My poor fellow, why not carry a watch?"

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Source : To a man in the street, carrying a grandfather clock, in Hesketh Pearson 'Beerbohm Tree' (1956) ch. 12

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#Watches Quotes #Why Not Quotes #Poor Quotes

“Allow your passion to become your purpose, and it will one day become your profession.”

Source : Twitter post from May 23, 2012
“I grew up listening to oldies, like Motown. That's from my mom.”

Source : "Q&A with Golden Goggles winner Ryan Lochte". Interview with Brian Cazeneuve, www.si.com. November 23, 2010.
“He's a gift from heaven, he is truly a gift from heaven. Whatever he touches turns to gold.”
“But that's what we all are-just stories. We only exist by how people remember us, by the stories we make of our lives. Without the stories, we'd just fade away.”
“In trying to evaluate Hopkins' unique contribution to biochemistry it may perhaps be said that he alone amongst his contemporaries succeeded in formulating the subject. Among others whose several achievements in their own fields may have surpassed his, no one has ever attempted to unify and correlate biochemical knowledge so as to form a comprehensible picture of the cell and its relation to life, reproduction and function.”
“Why are people saying it's too soon? Like the people on that flight, we need to agree about what to do about terrorism. And I think we need to have that conversation now.”
“Never give up. No one knows what's going to happen next.”
“I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.”

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