"Embrace the faff. Stare out of the window. Bend paperclips. Stand in the middle of the room trying to remember what you came downstairs for. Pace. Drum your fingertips. Move papers around. Hum. Look at the garden."

-- Tom Hodgkinson

#Moving Quotes #Garden Quotes #Trying Quotes

“If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.”
“I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.”
“My swag was phenomenal.”

Source : "Gilbert Arenas: The NBA's Colt Seavers?". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel and Michele Norris, www.npr.org. February 16, 2007.
“Having a baby isn't so bad. If you're a female Emperor penguin in the Antarctic. She lays the egg, rolls it over to the father, then takes off for warmer weather where she eats and eats and eats. For two months, the father stands stiff, without food, blind in the 24-hour dark, balancing the egg on his feet. After the little penguin is hatched, the mother sees fit to come home.”
“There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.”
“My fingers always seem busier than my mind.”
“A heart is a heart in a child or a man.”
“A Muslim allowed a topless Jew to sit on his camel. And we say we can't live side by side? I say we try and we can and we will. And you don't even have to be topless. L'chaim.”

Source : FaceBook post by Chelsea Handler from Jan 28, 2015

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