"Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed home and thought of here? Where should we be today?"

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Source : Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.91, Macmillan

Elizabeth Bishop

#Home Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes

“I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.”
“To get rid of villains and knaves, it is necessary to give them a way out. If you don't give them any leeway at all, they will be like trapped rats. If every way out is closed to them, they will chew up everything good.”
“I'm living every ten-year-old boy's fantasy. The other day, Chris and I had this big scene where we had to pull out our guns, and I was thinking, 'Here we are in New York City - a place where every actor wants to be - and we are literally playing cops and robbers. How great is that?'”
“You wouldn't cancel your insurance policy in the middle of a hurricane, and you shouldn't sell silver when it takes a tumble. Like any insurance, silver's value will pay out over time, not day by day.”
“I'm the anti-rock star. I'm happy just to have a bottle of water.”
“I still believe that the mission of Business 2.0 is very strong, very fundamental, and we're really at the beginning of where they're going to take us.”
“There are a lot of people out there who lie about their age and I think it does us all a disservice. It can't all be over when you hit 30. That would be rubbish.”
“Grandparenthood is a unique moment in anyone's life, as countless kind people have told me in recent months, so I am enormously proud and happy to be a grandfather for the first time and we are eagerly looking forward to seeing the baby in the near future.”

Source : "Duchess of Cambridge gives birth to baby boy, third in line to the throne" by Caroline Davies and Ben Quinn, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2013.

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