"You feel like telling him you're not single in the way that he thinks you're single. After all, you have yourself. I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture."

-- Sloane Crosley

#Thinking Quotes #Smell Quotes #Effort Quotes

“But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.”

Source : Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “In the Mountains”, p.12, Elizabeth von Arnim
“Some guys are more worried about their Vegas trip at the end of the season than playing the games, than playing every minute of the games. Quite frankly, I don't care about your Vegas trip right now.”

Source : "Top Shelf: Veteran Giguere calls out 'embarrassing' Avs". www.foxnews.com. April 09, 2013.
“If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination.”
“I believe it is important for people to create a healthy mental environment in which to accomplish daily tasks.”
“Hearts can't be broken because they're made of marzipan.”

Source : Kerstin Gier (2013). “Emerald Green”, p.43, Macmillan
“We may not understand the pathways God lays out before us. We may not even like walking the journey. But even in failure, we can trust that Heâ€™ll do more than we expect.”
“Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.”

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