"For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck."

-- Joseph Hall

#Being Thankful Quotes #Legs Quotes #Might Quotes

“I took a chance, I took a shot And you may think Iâ€™m bullet-proof, but Iâ€™m not. You took a swing, I took it hard. And down here from the ground I see who you are”
“I'm the worst person to tell anybody how to date.”
“Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink”
“The 'Little' or 'Barebones' Parliament, summoned by Oliver Cromwell to meet at Westminster on 4th July, 1653, after the dissolution of the remains of the Long Parliament, may have been an unpractical body, so far as the task of administration in troublous times was concerned. But it seems quite possible that the wealth of contumely and scorn which has been poured upon it was, originally, due quite as much to the fierce anger of vested interests against outspoken criticism, as to any real vagueness or want of practical wisdom in the plans of the House itself.”

Source : "A Short History Of The English Law" by Edward Jenks.Fiirst edition, ch. XII, Civil Procedure In The Middle Ages, p. 178, 1912.
“We have a funny concept of time in this culture. We revere it as we revere money, yet we rarely spend any of it on ourselves. We complain that we can't make what time we have go around, yet day after day we spend our allotment doing things we don't really want to be doing.”

Source : Jan Phillips (2012). “Marry Your Muse: Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity”, p.5, Quest Books
“It's terrifying. It's so scary, because you get used to being around the crew and being friendly with everyone and then suddenly, at a certain point, everything switches and you're the one standing behind the lights and nobody's going to help you. And that can be really difficult sometimes.”
“I stop writing the poem to fold the clothes. No matter who lives or who dies, I'm still a woman. I'll always have plenty to do. I bring the arms of his shirt together. Nothing can stop our tenderness. I'll get back to the poem. I'll get back to being a woman. But for now there's a shirt, a giant shirt in my hands, and somewhere a small girl standing next to her mother watching to see how it's done.”

Source : Tess Gallagher (1992). “Moon crossing bridge: poetry”, Graywolf Pr
“Others may dispute this, we have tried to keep that sense of experimentation and putting new people up alive. And we haven't become a show, where we're like, "We know the 20 comics who are good and we're just going to keep on recycling them."”

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