"And when you really think about the 9-11 event, the horrific attack on our land here in America and the death of three thousand of out loved ones, it was a defining moment."

-- Donald Evans

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“If you had to work 14 hour days, Mondays to Fridays, then you have to keep Saturdays and Sundays sacred.”
“Go ahead and cry, Andy. Don't be afraid of those tears. Sometimes they help to wash the soul clean.”

Source : Sharon M. Draper (2006). “Tears of a Tiger”, p.40, Simon and Schuster
“Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my intent is always to wring the maximum emotional resonance out of the object in hand.”
“If every UFO report could be convincingly credited to some conventional astronomical or atmospheric phenomenon, there would be no UFO mystery. It is precisely because so many UFO reports cannot logically be blamed on stars, planets, satellites, airplanes, balloons, etc., that a UFO mystery has existed since at least the mid-1940s.”
“With every character you play, as these guys will tell you, there's a part of you goes into that in terms of the ingredients of making this stew. There's most definitely a part of me in Captain Jack and now, fortunately or unfortunately, there's a great part of Captain Jack in me as well. Basically, I can't shake him. He won't leave me alone. He just sort of keeps showing up at odd times.”
“The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly branch shone on the old oak wall.”

Source : "The Mistletoe Bough". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.
“And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.”
“What was it that drew you back? My marvellous personality, I suppose? Or my sparkling conversation?”

Source : Jonathan Stroud (2005). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate”, Disney-Hyperion

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