"If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more."

-- J. D. Salinger

#Watches Quotes #Showing Off Quotes

“White is associated with purity because the entire spectrum is functioning in unity. White is a healing color. White is appropriate for weddings because the unity of male and female symbolizes the unity of allness.”
“Our solar system is fantastically bizarre. There are worlds with features we never imagined. Storms larger than planets, moons with under-surface oceans, lakes of methane, worldlets that swap places...and that's just at Saturn.”
“The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.”
“I have no detectable hair style.”
“If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.”
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
“If you own a simple Weber kettle grill, you own a smoker. You don't have to spend an enormous amount of money or even buy an extra piece of equipment. If you have that kettle grill, the whole secret to getting a lower temperature is to set up your grill for indirect grilling and use only half as much charcoal.”
“Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!”

Source : Charles Stross (2006). “The Atrocity Archives”, p.32, Penguin

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