"Long have you timidly waded Holding a plank by the shore, Now I will you to be a bold swimmer, To jump off in the midst of the sea, Rise again, nod to me, shout, And laughingly dash with your hair."

-- Walt Whitman

#Hair Quotes #Sea Quotes #Long Quotes

“That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.”
“Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.”
“My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world. I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in.”
“Scores of Congolese die each day unnecessarily due to the lack of access to healthcare and modern medicine.”
“I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors.”
“The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.”
“Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will.”
“I sleep better knowing that a naked cork-eater is not sneaking around at night, stealing my underwear.”

Source : Maureen Johnson (2005). “The Bermudez Triangle”, p.70, Penguin

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