"A lot of meetings are held to arrange when to have meetings. ... Meetings today are usually called conferences to make them sound more significant."

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Source : Jilly Cooper (2012). “How To Survive From Nine To Five”, p.42, Random House

Jilly Cooper

#Sound Quotes #Today Quotes #Significant Quotes

“I think nowadays it doesn't really matter where we are physically located. We create our own culture around us to a large extent, whether it's what we're listening to, what we're watching, what we're reading - it can have very little to do with one's immediate cultural environment. We are in a global culture in that respect.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A slow smile had curved St. Vincent's lips. 'Wives are a different case altogether. They require a great deal of effort but the rewards are substantial. I highly recommend wives. Especially one's own.”
“The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.”

Source : Adam Phillips (2017). “In Writing”, p.223, Penguin UK
“I'm a huge camper, and love hiking and mountain biking.”
“What does this mean 'mailer daemon'? Satan, are you messing with the e-mail system already?”
“Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!”

Source : The London Evening Standard, August 09, 2001.
“You, yourself, are the eternal energy which appears as this Universe. You didn't come into this world; you came out of it. Like a wave from the ocean.”
“Doctors can heal the body, but it is music that uplifts the spirit.”

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