"The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire"

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Source : ROBERT W. SERVICE (1917). “rhymes of rolling stone”

Robert W. Service

#Travel Quotes #Fire Quotes #Belly Quotes

“Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.”
“Quit shouting those rerun songs at me.”
“I hate cameras. They interfere, theyâ€™re always in the way. I wish: if I could just work with my eyes alone. To get a satisfactory print, one that contains all that you intended, is very often more difficult and dangerous than the sitting itself. When Iâ€™m photographing, I immediately know when Iâ€™ve got the image I really want. But to get the image out of the camera and into the open, is another matter.”
“I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs, and a nation with saddles on their backs.”
“I don't think my stylist would let me bedazzle my splint,”
“I need to be more under control. I need to calm down a little bit so I can cut down on the little silly errors I get.”
“Our mission is to speak the truth to power. We send home that first rough draft of history. We can and do make a difference in exposing the horrors of war and especially the atrocities that befall civilians.”

Source : "Marie Colvin: 'Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice'" by Marie Colvin, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2012.
“I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.”

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