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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#being #child #does #dollar #finding

If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#basic #command #craftsman #know #language

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#both #conscience #effective #engages #meek

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#after #animal #back #day #each

The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#continues #endangered #fine #just #whale

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. ↗

— Claude Debussy

#geometry #light #music #optics #sounds

I'm perfectly fine now if I never went on stage again. ↗

— Tina Turner

#fine #i #never #now #perfectly

I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough. ↗

— Jack Dee

#enough #enthusiasm #excited #fair #get

It's something that has informed quite a lot of my comedy - that idea of someone who is always trying to get in there with the right crowd, always trying to be a certain type of person and never managing it. ↗

— Jack Dee

#certain #comedy #crowd #get #idea

Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well. ↗

— Jack Dee

#appear #excited #fear #getting #going