"It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?"

-- A. A. Milne

#Friendship Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Fun Quotes

“Let us face it, the U.N. has failed. It has failed in its mission to promote world peace.”
“The repeat run of Fawlty Towers drew bigger audiences than ever and deservedly so. Statistical surveys reveal that only the television critic of The Spectator is incapable of seeing the joke, which is that Basil Fawlty has the wrong temperament to be a hotel proprietor, just as some other people have the wrong temperament to be television critics.”
“When you have the enthusiasm and the passion, you end up figuring how to excel.”
“If women could go into your Congress, I think justice would soon be done to the Indians.”

Source : Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (1883). “Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims”, p.53, University of Nevada Press
“In my mind, only one inviolable precept exists in terms of being a successful writer: you have to write. The unspoken sub-laws of that one precept are: to write, you must start writing and then finish writing. And then, most likely, start writing all over again because this writing "thing" is one long and endless ride on a really weird (but pretty awesome) carousel. Cue the calliope music.”
“I have 'the first' attached to my name in a whole lot of different aspects when it comes to the sport of basketball.”
“Love is an act of faith in another person, not an act of surrender.”
“I am completely in charge of the choices I make about what I am doing to lose weight and get healthy. And you know what? We all have this power. Donâ€™t be angry with me for something good Iâ€™ve done for myself. Be angry with yourself for not having the courage to do the same in your own life.”

Source : Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.114, Penguin

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