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Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance. Tom Hodgkinson
Saying You Creative Peace Creative Process Important Nothing Lying Way Give Fact Crucial Lazy Part Around Does Doing Gets Being In Fact Process Mean Being Lazy Create Meaningless Really Productivity Nay Bustle Actually Chance
Festivals are fun for kids, fun for parents and offer a welcome break from the stresses of the nuclear family. The sheer quantities of people make life easier: loads of adults for the adults to talk to and loads of kids for the kids to play with. Tom Hodgkinson
Life Family Welcome People Parents Easier Kids Adult Talk Make Sheer Quantities Festivals Offer Break Fun Play Nuclear Loads Stresses
The future of the world belongs to the youth of the world, and it is from the youth and not from the old that the fire of life will warm and enlighten the world. It is your privilege to breathe the breath of life into the dry bones of many around you. Tom Mann
Life Future You Youth World Old Will Fire Breath Dry Around Privilege Warm Breathe Your Many Enlighten Belongs Bones
You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.' Tommy Cooper
Today Me You Somebody Fine Parking Driving Know Said Left Little Note Actually
Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone. Tommy Cooper
Gone Ate Dreamt Marshmallow Ten Pound Pillow Woke Up Last Night Last Night
Being a track sprinter, when it's all about a thousandth of a second, there is no escaping the numbers every single day. Victoria Pendleton
Day Single Every About Track Single Day Sprinter Escaping Being Second Every Single Day Numbers
I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years. Victoria Wood
Car Keys Everyone Once Those Throws Drove Know Parties Got Years Middle Where Room Who Car Keys
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. Virginia Woolf
Best Poetry Delicious Prose True Most Which Full
I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it. Virginia Woolf
God Book Job Think Out Well Read Last Night Last Night
A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out. Virginia Woolf
Good Quality Draw Out Must About Permanent Essay Curtain Us Round
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all. W. Somerset Maugham
You Simple Smell Beauty Nothing Rose Hunger About Like Perfume Ecstasy Said Really
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. W. Somerset Maugham
Habit Prevents Excess Occasion Exhilarating Effect Moderation Acquiring
Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull. W. Somerset Maugham
Apt Perfection Dull Grave Defect
It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer. W. Somerset Maugham
Gentleman Writer Very Hard
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts. W. Somerset Maugham
Food You Three Eat Well Want England
My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop. Winston Churchill
Together Wife Three Breakfast Tried Disagreeable Had Years Times Stop Last Two
It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar. Winston Churchill
Lion Heart Nation Luck Give Had Roar Globe Dwelling Race Round
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod. Winston Churchill
Business Those Fact Am In Fact Anything Prod Certainly Who Need
These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived. Winston Churchill
Great Dark Country Our Days Greatest Lived Ever
Of all the waste we generate, plastic bags are perhaps the greatest symbol of our throwaway society. They are used, then forgotten, and they leave a terrible legacy. Zac Goldsmith
Society Our Generate Bags Perhaps Terrible Greatest Leave Legacy Forgotten Then Used Plastic Waste Symbol
I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness. Queen Victoria
Happiness Woman People Too Much Think Too I Think Marry Lottery Very After Poor Far Much Really Doubtful
I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all. Queen Victoria
Girl Would I Feel Knew Feel Altar She Sure Go
The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself. Queen Victoria
Rights Women Queen Wicked Herself Everyone Furious Mad Folly Contain Checking Most She Makes Subject Anxious Cannot Which Enlist
I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting. Queen Victoria
Young Think Babies I Think Though Rather Very Disgusting Dislike
The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs. A. E. Waite
Language Signs Other True Tarot Offers Speaks Symbolism
I can't stop staring at my beautiful new baby. Abbey Clancy
Beautiful Baby New New Baby Stop Staring
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