"Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party."

-- Wilfred Burchett

#Party Quotes #Political Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”

Source : Glen Cook (1990). “Sweet Silver Blues”, p.42, Penguin
“You're better off owning 30 percent and having two amazing partners who compliment you and are equally as driven as you are than having 100 percent and only having one aspect of it, unless you're a super genius who is creative and business-minded at the same time.”
“The way that words mutate reminds me of fashions in music. The word--the note--is a constant. But the setting and chord in which it occurs alters with the mood of a nation from major to minor, from the assertive to the mournful and foreboding.”

Source : Neal Ascherson (1988). “Games with Shadows”, Hudson Annex
“An 'unintended pregnancy' could be a wonderful surprise, not planned but welcome. Why should the government be in the business of 'preventing' a surprising but welcome pregnancy”
“Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.”
“Grace removes obstacles that we donâ€™t even know are there. Grace is what arranges our lives so we are forced to look within.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 16, 2009
“Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are those who resent it. But art is not meant to stop the stream of life. Within a narrow span of duration and space the work of art concentrates a view of the human condition; and sometimes it marks the steps of progression, just as a man climbing the dark stairs of a medieval tower assures himself by the changing sights glimpsed through its narrow windows that he is getting somewhere after all.”
“Of course, your voice always sounds better in the shower for some reason, maybe it's just the octaves or, I don't know, the water, I have no idea.”

Source : "David Boreanaz - Interviewed on Location for Carpe Noctem in Los Angels". BBC Interview, www.bbc.co.uk. August 22, 2001.

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