Thankful For Life Birthday Quotes & Sayings

I read my email aloud to hear how it sounded, then I read it again in a British accent to make sure it didn't come across as pretentious. — Jerry Mahoney

Good work is not done by 'humble' men. It is one of the first duties of a professor, for example, in any subject, to exaggerate a little both the importance of his subject and his own importance in it. A man who is always asking 'Is what I do worthwhile?' and 'Am I the right person to do it?' will always be ineffective himself and a discouragement to others. He must shut his eyes a little, and think a little more of his subject and himself than they deserve. G. H. Hardy — Richard Davenport-Hines

They lay together in Seivarden's bunk - pressed close, the space was narrow. Ekalu angry - and terrified, heart rate elevated. Seivarden, between Ekalu and the wall, momentarily immobile with injured bewilderment. "It was a compliment!" Seivarden insisted. "The way provincial is an insult. Except what am I?" Seivarden, still shocked, didn't answer. "Every time you use that word, provincial, every time you make some remark about someone's low-class accent or unsophisticated vocabulary, you remind me that I'm provincial, that I'm low-class. That my accent and my vocabulary are hard work for me. When you laugh at your Amaats for rinsing their tea leaves you just remind me that cheap bricked tea tastes like home. And when you say things meant to compliment me, to tell me I'm not like any of that, it just reminds me that I don't belong here. And it's always something small but it's every day. — Ann Leckie

The American man is a very simple and cheap mechanism. The American woman I find a complicated and expensive one. Contrasts of feminine types are possible. I am not absolutely sure that there is more than one American man. — Henry Adams

Maybe I should consider going to paranormal and ask them whether this guy is for real or not. — Nina Ardianti

Same if you had a bad show, it just rolls off you more easily. — Aoife O'Donovan

Kelsier rapped lightly on the door, and Dockson strolled over, pulling it open.
"And he makes his stunning entry!" Kelsier announced, sweeping into the room, throwing back his mistcloak.
Dockson snorted, shutting the doors. "You're truly a wonder to behold, Kell. Particularly the soot stains on your knees. — Brandon Sanderson

Don't allow feelings of any kind to dominate you, but instead remember that feelings are fickle. They are ever-changing. The bad ones are there when you wish they weren't, and the good ones disappear when you need them most. — Joyce Meyer

And the whole huge town of a million people was locked in a sort of violent inertia, a nightmare of noise without movement. — George Orwell

Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight. — Edgar Degas

Compulsory sports for those who by temperament or physique do not qualify may be a disaster ... The repercussions may be extreme ... and they may be very long-lasting, even throughout adulthood. — John Money

Marriage is rather a silly habit. — John Osborne

Life is damn short,lets sleep then! — Me

In positions of strategic manoeuvring (where time is not of decisive importance) seek the worst-placed piece. Activating that piece is often the most reliable way of improving your position as a whole. — Mark Dvoretsky

I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view. — Oscar Isaac