"How amazing that the language of a few thousand savages living on a fog-encrusted island in the North Sea should become the language of the world."

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Source : "The Scourge Of Teleprompters" by Jack Valenti, www.nytimes.com. July 10, 1984.

Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley

#Fog Quotes #Sea Quotes #Islands Quotes

“I was ten years old when my first Vogue cover sang me its siren call and dashed me against the treacherous rocks of fashion obsession.”
“it's a reminder of one of the greatest lessons of all: live as if you'll live forever, but live each day as if it were your last.”
“Masonry is too great an institution to have been made in a day, much less by a few men, but was a slow evolution through long time, unfolding its beauty as it grew. Indeed, it was like one of its own cathedrals which one generation of builders wrought and vanished, and another followed, until, amidst vicissitudes of time and change, of decline and revival, the order itself became a temple of Freedom and Fraternity.”

Source : Joseph Fort Newton (2013). “The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry”, p.124, Lulu Press, Inc
“And itâ€™s not like Iâ€™ve never jacked off. Iâ€™m fifteen years old. Of course I do it. Any guy who says he doesnâ€™t is lying. That would be like having the coolest video game ever and never playing it. No oneâ€™s that stupid.”
“Well... I still can't see the light at the end of the tunnel. These politicians are such sleazebags that you just don't know. You can't really get anything from a lot of them once they get into power. They totally forget about all their commitments. The poor people elect them, and they forget about all the poor people.”
“We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written out. We get our noses blown off.”
“It is always man's ideas which drive his actions. This has, at times, resulted in great evil; but as we look around us, we cannot doubt that it has resulted in greater good.”

Source : Steven Brust (2010). “Sethra Lavode”, p.324, Macmillan
“We don't realize that we face a frustrating situation in which we win every battle, but we lose the war.”

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