As it turned out, almost every notion I had on my 13th birthday about my future turned out to be a total waste of my time. When I thought of myself as an adult, all I could imagine was someone thin, and smooth, and calm, to whom things... happened. S...
Pippin: I feel like I'm back at the Green Dragon. Merry: [through a mouthful of food] Mm. Green Dragon. Pippin: A mug of ale in my hand, putting my feet up on a settle after a hard day's work. Merry: Only, you've never done a hard day's work. [They l...
Cassie Cartwright: Just finished my shift. Wanna dance? Ennis Del Mar: I was just on my way to the... Cassie Cartwright: [takes his arm and leads to dance floor] I'm Cassie; Cassie Cartwright. Ennis Del Mar: Ennis. Ennis Del Mar: Del Mar. Ennis Del M...
You can always find good elements in the misfortune that strikes you.
Old bachelors and old maids are either too good or too bad.
Water from far away is no good for a fire close by.
Men can bear all things except good days.
Who has only one eye must take good care of it.
There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.
One good argument is worth more than ten better ones.
The good white man dies, the bad one remains.
Nothing improves the taste of pasta more than a good appetite.
Do good and throw it into the sea -- if it is not appreciated by an ungrateful man, it will be appreciated by God.
He who leaves a good name does not die poor.
The cat with cream on her whiskers should have a good excuse ready.
It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good.
The horse that arrives early gets good drinking water.
1) Work on one thing at a time until finished. 2) Start no more new books, add no more new material to "Black Spring." 3) Don't be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand. 4) Work according to Program and not according to mo...
The difference between magic and meditation methods is the difference between drugs and diet—medicines will do swiftly what diet can only effect slowly, and in critical cases there is no time to wait for the slow processes of dietetics, so it must ...
[…] there exists around the written world opened by the work a multitude of other possible worlds, which we can complete by means of our images and our words. Denying oneself this work of completion in the name of some hypothetical fidelity to the ...
You see, mzungus make these programmes because in their countries they know that everything will work correctly. And when they come to Uganda they still make their programmes but they forget that things don't work here like they do when they are at h...
