"Women need men likeÂ fish need bicycles,"

-- Irina Dunn

#Men Quotes #Needs Quotes #Fishes Quotes

“Fame is an interesting phenomenon.”

Source : "Fame According To Me" by Paulina Porizkova, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2010.
“I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that boarding school is good training for writers because its so desperately lacking in privacy: you make space for yourself by having an interior life.”

Source : "A life in books" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2009.
“The moods of love are like the wind, And none knows whence or why they rise.”

Source : Coventry Patmore (1863). “The betrothal. The espousals”, p.104
“Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.”

Source : Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham (1985). “The Shorter Pepys”, p.651, Univ of California Press
“And to get the work done that I must do, one has to work in isolation and not be readily disturbed... I don't have daily newspapers, and I like to feel when I get up in the morning my attention is fixed on the work I am going to do.”
“To fall asleep in your embrace,Land of our dreams, what bliss,O you our cradle, you our grave,You the new hope we ever crave,Peninsula so beautiful,Finland for aye our all!”
“To each eye, perhaps, the outlines of a great civilization present a different picture. In the wide ocean upon which we venture, the possible ways and directions are many; and the same studies which have served for my work might easily, in other hands, not only receive a wholly different treatment and application, but lead to essentially different conclusions.”
“Research is a passion with me; it drives me; it is my relentless master.”

Source : Margaret Morse Nice (1979). “Research is a Passion with Me”, p.41, Dundurn

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