"Used to move so much, every time the chickens saw the team put in the wagon, they'd lie down on their backs and hold their legs up to be tied!"

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Mary Roberts Rinehart

#Lying Quotes #Team Quotes #Moving Quotes

“What I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition...”
“You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside.”
“What gets measured (and clearly defined) does get done.”
“It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized.”

Source : Asa Gray (1880). “Natural science and religion, 2 lectures”
“A candidate who tries to steer a path down the middle in an effort to 'win independents' runs the risk of convincing everyone that they have no core values. As much as - or more than - any other voters, independents want to see conviction and authenticity.”
“Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.”
“I've missed you, Sebastian." "Have you, love?" He unfastened the buttons of her robe, the light eyes glittering with heat as her skin was revealed. "What part did you miss the most?" "Your mind," she said, and smiled at his expression. "I was hoping for a far more depraved answer than that." "Your mind is depraved," she told him solemnly. He gave a husky laugh. "True.”
“One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame.”

Source : Thomas Gray, John MITFORD (Vicar of Benhall.) (1866). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray. [With “The Life of Thomas Gray. By John Mitford”.]”, p.152

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