"New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage."

-- Anna Quindlen

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“I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.”

Source : "Goodbye Texas, hello Woking!" by William Leith, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2006.
“I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.”

Source : Dame Barbara Hepworth (1952). “Carvings and Drawings”
“A real racehorse should have a head like a lady and the behind like a cook.”
“You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.”
“Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.”
“I had to think really hard about how to choose between job offers.”
“As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.”
“In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.”

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