"We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school."

-- Evelyn Waugh

#School Quotes #Class Quotes #Literature Quotes

“It's just me and my 6-month-old puppy. I am not dating anyone.”
“My life and work are not separate. I just have more roles than other people. And I have photographs.”
“It's about doing things that you haven't done before, where you're still kind of a beginner, and not resting on your laurels.”

Source : "Caterina Fake: How To Avoid The Pressure Of The Startup 'Sophomore Slump'". www.businessinsider.com. May 20, 2011.
“I almost never do drawings, because I have found over the years that doing something in one medium and translating into another doesn't work. I like to conceive a painting in real scale and in color.”

Source : William H. Tunner, United States. Air Force. Office of Air Force History (1964). “Over the hump”
“I think everyone keeps on growing. I've grown about 0.0000001 mm?”
“I tell cold callers I'm very interested but a bit deaf, my hearing aid is not working properly and can they speak up. The idea is to deliberately miss-hear what they say, ask them to repeat, only louder, and see how loud I can get them to shout. After a while I say "I'm not really deaf" and was just wasting their time, as they were doing with me.”
“All our moments are last moments. We abide in the forever leaving of our own coming? We can put our hands together, palm to palm, settling here on the last leaf of our brief flight, and bow to the wonder of it.”
“In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. I have to go to bed and see The birds still hopping on the tree, Or hear the grown-up people's feet Still going past me in the street. And does it not seem hard to you, When all the sky is clear and blue, And I should like so much to play, To have to go to bed by day?”

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