"Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful."

-- Samuel Beckett

#Bored Quotes #Awful Quotes

“One glance proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that these unions (railroad craft unions) are exceedingly useful to the corporations; and to the extent that they serve the economic and political purposes of the corporations, they are the foes â€“ and not the friends â€“ of the working class.”
“As a businessperson, I dont have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.”
“I liked reading about the nun who ate so dainty with her fingers she never dripped any grease on herself. I've never been able to make that claim and I use a fork.”
“He's one of those guys whose English gets worse every year. But as long as it doesn't affect his play, we're all right.”
“As a coach, you're just trying to figure out how to keep a team on edge. You've got to find that edge.”
“Another thing that I don't like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue moon. Sometimes there are lessons when I don't pick up a violin at all.”
“It's so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself.”
“The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, I have tried to do that with manic-depressive illness. It has been a fascinating, albeit deadly, enemy and companion; I have found it to be seductively complicated, a distillation both of what is finest in our natures, and of what is most dangerous.”

Source : Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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