"He did nothing in particular, and did it very well."

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Source : 'Iolanthe' (1882) act 2

W. S. Gilbert

#Work Quotes #Wells Quotes #Particular Quotes

“Yet in this my stars were not Mercury as morning star in the angle of the seventh house, in quartile with Mars, but they were Copernicus, they were Tycho Brahe, without whose books of observations everything which has now been brought by me into the brightest daylight would lie buried in darkness.”
“Again, (America is) a stupid country with stupid people who don't pay attention.”

Source : "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. September 3, 2012.
“I'd hate it if everyone in the world liked me, my music and what I wore. It'd make it boring, and I wouldn't have anything to work towards. It's not to everyone's taste, but I can only be me.”
“Defeats and failures are great developers of character. They have made the giants of our race by giving Titanic muscles, brawny sinews, and far-reaching intellects.”
“I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was.”
“Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.”
“You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.”
“I think about giving up. I almost do.”

Source : Anchee Min (2001). “Becoming Madame Mao”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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