"I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family."

-- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#Just Being Quotes #Rich Quotes #My Family Quotes

“I dont care to be involved in the crash-landing unless I can be in on the take-off.”
“I won a noble fame; But with a sudden frown, The people snatched my crown, And, in the mire, trod down My lofty name.”

Source : Theodore Tilton, “Sir Marmaduke's Musings”
“A multifaceted writer, very easy on the surface to pin down but incredibly difficult once you actually read him with any depth.”

Source : "Joshua Ferris Reads George Saunders" by Sally Law, www.newyorker.com. August 10, 2009.
“You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.”
“I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.”
“I really wanted to do research. That has never changed.”
“If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.”
“I don't usually eat breakfast. I prefer to be asleep during the hours that it is served.”

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