"Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations."

-- Bernard Cornwell

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Vacation Quotes

“For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer than it is deep; and its main front would face the south.”
“My philosophy, like color television, is all there in black and white.”
“The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?”
“Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions.”
“I'm not starting any fights. I might finish one though.”
“Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.”

Source : Eve Arnold (1995). “Eve Arnold: in retrospect”, Random House (UK)
“I have this determination and drive to live a better life, change the world, and accomplish great things. Distractions are always there, but my purpose is so much greater that I'm always able to get back on focus.”

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“Through thickest gloom look back, immortal shade, On that confusion which thy death has made.”

Source : Phillis Wheatley (1838). “Poems of Phillis Wheatley: A Native African and a Slave”, p.55, Applewood Books

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