"Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers end."

-- Robert A. Burton

#Fame Quotes #Ends Quotes #Fingers Quotes

“Bowman turned his back on her and began to search the place methodically and exhaustively. When one searches any place, be it a gypsy caravan or a baronial mansion, methodically and exhaustively, one has to wreck it completely in the process.So, in a orderly and systematic fashion, Bowman set about reducing Czerda's caravan to a total ruin.”

Source : Alistair MacLean (1974). “Caravan to Vaccarès”
“This I can report from the front lines: life never calms down long enough for us to wait until tomorrow to start living the lives we deserve.”
“Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.”

Source : FaceBook post by John Updike from Mar 19, 2013
“All that is gold does not glitter.”
“I really have a generation gap about modern clothes.”
“When we got down there were some agent provocateurs, if you've never heard of them, these are people sent in intentionally into a group to create chaos and dissension ... There were two we identified down there that were trying to foment violence on either side, trying to really create a confrontation. Any time this stuff happens there's going to be agent provocateurs come in.”
“Trouble trouble and it will trouble you.”

Source : P. L. Travers (2014). “Mary Poppins: 80th Anniversary Collection”, p.198, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“BEAST is very happy because of B2UTIES.. Thank you those who love and care for us..”

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