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Adventure novel1 quote
It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed, only a little kind of a low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next. — Mark Twain · 1884Children's literature1 quote
It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed, only a little kind of a low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next. — Mark Twain · 1884Comedy1 quote
Michael, I did nothing. I did absolutely nothing and it was everything I thought it could be. — Peter Gibbons · 1999Comedy (film)1 quote
Michael, I did nothing. I did absolutely nothing and it was everything I thought it could be. — Peter Gibbons · 1999Philosophical literature1 quote
Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored. — Soren Kierkegaard · 1843Soul1 quote
I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay,
Watchin' the tide roll away,
Ooh, I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay,
Wastin' time. — Otis Redding · 1968