"He gave a small nod, and I smiled back, and that was it. He understood that I'd understood that he'd understood. It took us one sentence, two looks, and a nod - with another woman it would have been at least five minutes of out-loud talking. Lucky for me I spoke fluent guy."

-- Laurell K. Hamilton

#Talking Quotes #Two Quotes #Guy Quotes

“It's a juggling act. Every time I get going on the album stuff or being musical, acting kicks in and I book a job. It comes down to a money thing.”
“My favorite question is 'What do you do?' I'm like, 'I'm a walking cliche: I'm a model and an actress.”
“The Western societies which espouse free market capitalism survive by the pursuit of greed and, in their own way, like Communism, throw into leadership men and women (mostly men) who know how to gain, exert and manipulate power.”
“Everything is up for grabs, everything is relative. Except nothing is if you are serious about it because the moment you become serious about answering a question you have a stake in it. Relatively goes out of the window, in one sense because you're putting your a** out there - you are depending on the answer, you need the answer.”

Source : Source: classic.esquire.com
“Gonzo . . . acidic hilarity . . . 'The Fun Parts' has fine moments, but it's not the whole Lipsyte story. Read it with 'The Ask' if you really want to know how a mordant jokester with a madman's imagination became a literary rock star.”
“The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.”
“To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time.”
“Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.”

Source : "What I've Learned: Senator Dick Lugar (R, Ind.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 21, 2010.

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