"I'd put the most money on Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson - and not just because we'll probably still be waiting for the final volume in 2017."

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David Edelstein

#Waiting Quotes #Finals Quotes #Biographies Quotes

“There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.”
“... lapses of memory are only attractive when you've encouraged them, not when they take you unawares.”

Source : Hildegard Knef (1972). “The Gift Horse: Report on a Life”
“Christianity is part of the Common Law of England.”

Source : In 'Historia Placitorum Coronae' (ed. Sollom Emlyn, 1736)
“[L]et us work to rid ourselves of our attacks of over-zealousness especially when it offends against respect, esteem, and charity.”
“W. Kamau Bell is in the vanguard of a new era of American comedy for an unsettling, troubling, and strangely hopeful time. Firmly in the fearless tradition of Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, & Chris Rock. Comedy as common sense purged of the absurd hypocrisy that is Our America.”
“Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only, and by means of the electric light projected on a screen, that we may witness physical phenomena, but that we may find illustrations of the highest doctrines of science in games and gymnastics, in travelling by land and by water, in storms of the air and of the sea, and wherever there is matter in motion.”
“Music is in all growing things; And underneath the silky wings Of smallest insects there is stirred A pulse of air that must be heard; Earth's silence lives, and throbs, and sings.”

Source : George Parsons Lathrop (1875). “Rose and Roof-tree: Poems”, p.16
“Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.”

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