"Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up."

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Source : Margaret Halsey (1977). “No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Margaret Halsey

#Thinking Quotes #Boredom Quotes #Vistas Quotes

“I want to be someone who is respected and not just in terms of my music. I want to be respected in terms of the way that I treat people... Music is my creative outlet in terms of expressing what is important to me; what has importance, what has a value. And I wanna be respected for that.”
“If you can run the company a bit more collaboratively, you get a better result, because you have more bandwidth and checking and balancing going on.”
“Most mother-women give up whatever ghost of a unique and human self they may have when they 'marry' and raise children.”
“A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.”

Source : Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press
“Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.”
“One of the most beautiful hypotheses ever propounded in physics is ... the Dynamical Theory of Gases”
“I carry about eight lip balms: Burts Bees, Rosebud Salve, Eos.”
“I always say artists must broaden their research. I go to casinos, fly fishing, to show apartments in new residential buildings, watch fairs, the football, ikebana courses, survival expeditions, Dungeons & Dragons nights, and it doesn't matter which of these I personally want to do â€” that is my job. Thatâ€™s true research; otherwise, it would be a bit like masturbating.”

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