"I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!'"

-- Linda Grant

#Coffee Quotes #Book Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.”
“Enough of that, you damned conspirators, you will have us hanged a great deal sooner than we will.”

Source : Naomi Novik (2009). “In His Majesty's Service: Three Novels of Temeraire (His Majesty's Service, Throne of Jade, and Black Powder War)”, p.209, Del Rey
“When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.”

Source : Gelett Burgess (1937). “Look Eleven Years Younger”
“At the heart of our desires is eternal happiness without the slightest hint of misery. You could say that we are pleasure seekers; however, seeking pleasure from the objects of our five senses produces fleeting moments of pleasure whereas, pleasure of one's self, a soul, is eternal and ever-increasing pleasure.”
“Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.”
“What creates reality is not reality, but you.”
“To get rid of greed, you should try to do some sort of a collective social work.”
“If today is your typical day in America, 80 of our fellow citizens will die from gunfire. In the last two weeks, more Americans have died from gunfire here at home in the United States than in the entire war in Iraq since it started.”

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