"Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas."

-- William Tenn

#Humility Quotes #Apes Quotes #Bananas Quotes

“I think we all remember where we were when Rush Hour hit the water. That was an important day.”
“We have a funny concept of time in this culture. We revere it as we revere money, yet we rarely spend any of it on ourselves. We complain that we can't make what time we have go around, yet day after day we spend our allotment doing things we don't really want to be doing.”

Source : Jan Phillips (2012). “Marry Your Muse: Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity”, p.5, Quest Books
“A man may be a great statesman, and yet dislike his wife, and like somebody else's. A man may be a great hero, and yet he may have an unseemly passion, or an unpaid tailor. But the British public does not understand this. ... It thinks, unhappily or happily as you may choose to consider, that genius should keep the whole ten commandments. Now, genius is conspicuous for breaking them.”
“I, who ne'erWent for myself a begging, go a borrowing,And that for others. Borrowing's much the sameAs begging; just as lending upon usuryIs much the same as thieving.”
“When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day. Credit leads into a desert with invisible boundaries.”
“I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.”
“The hardest thing in fashion is not to be known for a logo, but to be known for a silhouette.”
“Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.”

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