"For years, I worked seven-day weeks, through birthdays and most public holidays, Christmases and New Yearâ€™s Eves included. I worked mornings and afternoons, resuming work after dinner. I remember feeling as if life were a protracted exercise in pulling myself out of a well by a rope, and that rope was work."

-- Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#New Year Quotes #Morning Quotes #Holiday Quotes

“I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General.”

Source : 'The Pirates of Penzance' (1879) act 1
“It's the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle?”
“I'd like to be like a hummingbird. You see them every now and then. You don't see them everywhere.”
“We cannot abandon this rabbit hole for fear of a traumatic encounter with our own culture.”
“Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.”
“I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.”
“Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.”
“I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.”

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