"Holding hands at midnight 'Neath a starry sky... Nice work if you can get it And you can get it -- if you try."

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Source : "NiceWork If You Can Get It" (song) (1937)

Ira Gershwin

#Nice Quotes #Hands Quotes #Sky Quotes

“Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.”
“I saw the Nutcracker to be a dummy as I thought of its mouth moving like a nutcracker - and also find them pretty scary as they almost have a life of their own.”
“Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life”

Source : "My Letter to the Internet" by Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2012.
“Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other disciplines would compete unfairly for limited financial resources and thus diminish their own opportunity for research.”

Source : "Hannes Alfvén: Dean of the Plasma Dissidents". Book by Anthony L. Peratt, p. 192, 1998.
“It was cold. Space, the air we breathed, the yellow rocks, were deadly cold. There was something ultimate, passionless, and eternal in this cold. It came to us as a single constant note from the depths of space. We stood on the very boundary of life and death.”
“For the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country ... not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change,â€ she said. â€œI have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment.”
“All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.”
“It is a fact that under equal conditions, large-scale battles and whole wars are won by troops which have a strong will for victory, clear goals before them, high moral standards, and devotion to the banner under which they go into battle.”

Source : "The Military Quotation Book" by James Charlton, (p. 15), 2002.

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