"On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza, accompanied, not preceded by a vague notion of the poem which they were destined to form a part of.... I say bubble up because, so far as I could make out, the source of the suggestions thus proffered to the brain was the pit of the stomach."

-- A. E. Housman

#Drinking Quotes #Beer Quotes #Two Quotes

“Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.”
“Don't worry about where you are or what you have or even what you think you want. Take one step at a time and worry only about only this - who you are - who you really are. Find what you love, love what makes you happy - try giving instead of getting, try caring instead of hating. Remove the mindless distractions from your life and focus on the things and people that matter the most to you. Follow your heart to discover what makes you happy, never let go of it, never devalue anything that is beautiful, and build a life that lets you be yourself.”
“For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races.”
“When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it!”
“Being proud of something is a very tricky word and I sometimes think it has a bad connotation. I don't feel proud, I feel grateful. I'm lucky.”

Source : "'All My Children' Actor David Canary Dies". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. November 25, 2015.
“There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.(Bonald, M.} There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.”
“Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont apply to you.”

Source : Dick Francis (2006). “Straight”, p.104, Penguin
“To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student.”

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