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Things To Do Quotes (page 24)

Do not be sad. Or think Adieu. Never Adieu. We will watch the sun set again - many times, and perhaps we'll see the Emerald Drop, the green flash that brings good fortune. And you must laugh and chatter as you used to do - telling me about the battle off the Saints or the picnic at Marie Galante - that famous picnic that turned into a fight. Or the pirates and what they did between voyages. For every voage might be their last. Sun and sangoree's a heady mixture. Then - the earthquake. Oh... Jean Rhys
Things are forgotten and then perhaps picked up again, if we're lucky, it lasts... if not, then it's in the lap of the gods. The important thing was to do some work that I liked and hopefully that some others might also like, whether for a minute, a week, a month, a year. Tom Glazer
Saint Teresa quote: "Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from..."
Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen? Saint Teresa
To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour. Winston Churchill
To be regularly gay was to do every day the gay thing that they did every day. To be regularly gay was to end every day at the same time after they had been regularly gay. They were regularly gay. They were gay every day. They ended every day in the same way, at the same time, and they had been every day regularly gay. Gertrude Stein
To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man—the mystery, the power, the freedom. Drawbacks I saw none. You have only to think! And I, a shabby, poverty-struck, hemmed-in demonstrator, teaching fools in a provincial college, might suddenly become—this. H. G. Wells
THING TO TRY: If you are asked to describe a suspect to a police sketch artist, describe in precise detail, the features of the police sketch artist. This is one of the rare instances where two people can do one self-portrait. Demetri Martin
To understand something and to put that something into a form that you can see with your own eyes are two completely different things. If you could manage to do both equally well, living would be a lot simpler (from Honey Pie) Haruki Murakami
Rogers Hornsby quote: "To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good..."
To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit. Rogers Hornsby
Vivienne Westwood quote: "To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to..."
To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read. Vivienne Westwood
To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have. Fiona Shaw
To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world. Ronnie Barker
Robert Louis Stevenson quote: "To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the..."
To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man. Robert Louis Stevenson
Tiffeny Milbrett quote: "To be the key player in creating and scoring goals, that's..."
To be the key player in creating and scoring goals, that's what I take pride in, and the thing I know how to do best. Tiffeny Milbrett
To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off. Nancy Friday

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