"I donâ€™t know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when Iâ€™m telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it."

-- P. G. Wodehouse

#Stories Quotes #Problem Quotes #Come Up Quotes

“A couple of months ago I hauled my white ***** on stage alongside Chaka Khan and Stevie Wonder for Divas Las Vegas, singing in front of a celebrity audience. If I can hold my own there, I can hold my own at Top of the Pops, trust me.”
“There is something that governments care for more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy.... Those of you who can break windows--break them. Those of you who can still further attack the secret idol of property, so as to make the Government realize that property is as greatly endangered by women's suffrage as it was by the Chartists of old--do so. And my last word is to the Government: I incite this meeting to rebellion!”
“Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.”
“At the end of every year, I add up the time that I have spent on the phone on hold and subtract it from my age. I don't count that time as really living. I spend more and more time on hold each year. By the time I die, I'm going to be quite young.”
“As might be expected of creatures so heavenly in color, the disposition of bluebirds is particularly angelic. Gentleness and amiability are expressed in their soft musical voice. Tru-al-ly, tru-al-ly, they sweetly assert when we can scarcely believe that spring is here; tru-wee, tur-wee they softly call in autumn when they go roaming through the countryside in flocks of azure.”
“The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.”

Source : "Hollyweird Science: The Next Generation: From Spaceships to Microchips". Book by Kevin R. Grazier and Stephen Cass, p. 89, 2017.
“Acquire with the intention to retain, and retain with the intention to grow.”
“The thing about shadows is that they're not all darkness. You need to have light to have shadows. So just look for it.”

Source : A. Meredith Walters (2014). “Light in the Shadows”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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