"It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written."

-- Ferdinand Mount

#Writing Quotes #Taking A Break Quotes #Columns Quotes

“The principles governing the behavior of systems are not widely understood.”

Source : Jay Wright Forrester (1968). “Principles of Systems: Text and Workbook”
“I have a son in Barcelona whom I am madly in love with.”
“The time on either side of now stands fast.”
“There are many stars and a few super-stars in sport. There are champions who bag a coronet now and then, and there are others who dominate some game year after year. In other words there are Bobby Jones and Helen Wills.”
“Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!”
“It's much more fun to run a political campaign than it is to be the candidate.”
“I was suckered in by the myth of the man [ William Burroughs] as much as by his work.”
“The question is never ‘Are you in a storm?’ The question is ‘Is Jesus in your boat?’”

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