"I am hoping for better times. That's how you know us hapless gardeners - by our dirty fingernails and our absurd, unquenchable optimism about next year."

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Source : Mary McGrory, Phil Gailey (2006). “The Best of Mary McGrory: A Half-Century of Washington Commentary”, p.161, Andrews McMeel Publishing

Mary McGrory

#Dirty Quotes #Years Quotes #Optimism Quotes

“When I think of my best days as husband, I find I was doing what Regi said in this book. What Radical Husbands Do is a practical book I can safely give any man who is struggling in his marriage.”
“I like to pick my own vegetables.”
“Jonathan Edwards developed a Calvinistic strand of the doctrine.”
“It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.”
“Washington's a cesspool of money.”
“I dont ever want to do anything mediocre. I hear the music in the charts and I dont mean to be rude, but those people have no soul. Learning from music is like eating a meal - you have to pace yourself. You cant take everything from it all at once. I want to be different, definitely. Im not a one trick pony. Im at least a five-trick pony.”
“I feel life is to be lived. You want to spend your time doing things and being with friends and all that.”
“The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.”

Source : Gillian Flynn (2012). “The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places”, p.218, Broadway Books

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