"Having no room of my own to "take care of things" had begun to weigh on me. I wondered if storing up ***** would have a health impact on me, positive or negative, like shinier hair or weight gain."

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Source : Bill Konigsberg (2013). “Openly Straight”, p.145, Scholastic Inc.

Bill Konigsberg

#Impact Quotes #Hair Quotes #Negative Quotes

“We don't use the term 'working class' here because it's a taboo term. You're supposed to say 'middle class,' because it helps diminish the understanding that there's a class war going on.”
“In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.”

Source : The Peter Principle ch. 1 (1969)
“Without TD, we don't win Super Bowls. That's fact.”
“If I may so express it, I was steeped in Dora. I was not merely over head and ears in love with her, but I was saturated through and through. Enough love might have been wrung out of me, metaphorically speaking, to drown anybody in; and yet there would have remained enough within me, and all over me, to pervade my entire existence.”
“There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.”
“There is no theory that would guide us through interplantary space to another world even if we could control our departure from the earth; there is no means of carrying the large amount oxygen, water, and food that would be necessary for such a long journey; and there is not known way of easing our ether ship down on the surface of another world, if we could get there.”
“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”
“You have to be a good team, but you have to be lucky and stay away from injuries.”

Source : "What Did Jagr Say?". Philadelphia Flyers Press Conference Transcript, www.hockeybuzz.com. September 17, 2011.

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