"I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season."

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Source : William Dampier (2012). “A Voyage to New Holland”, p.92, tredition

William Dampier

#Rain Quotes #Fields Quotes #Now And Then Quotes

“% of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end.”
“If someone doesn't like your fiction, it's really insulting.”

Source : Source: www.identitytheory.com
“I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.”
“It was this feeling for a lot of my characters, who are dissidents or banned artists and writers, that they had had to fight living under so much surveillance, and then suddenly they come to America and they're like, I'm not being surveilled - I'm not even being noticed at all.”
“The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply.”

Source : LEO BOGART (1967). “STRATEGY IN ADVERTISING”
“The good news is, Americans know firsthand the benefits of a free market - more choices, lower prices, higher quality - and there is no reason why we cannot help them see these same benefits in health care.”
“Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.”
“I'd say it [success in NASCAR] is probably 50% car, 30% driver and 20% luck. When it comes to the driving, if the driver doesn't do his part, then it's just kind of like multiplying a negative times a positive: The end result is going to be a negative.”

Source : Interview with Jeff Gluck, www.usatoday.com. July 30, 2013.

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