"it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it."

-- Leo Tolstoy

“I do not think he [Reagan] put names and faces together but for a small group of people. There were a few, perhaps half a dozen reporters, that Reagan recognized, including my colleague Lou Cannon, and some from television and the wire services. The rest of us were faces.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.”
“Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.”
“Maybe sometimes you just feel like everything can be taken from you all at once.”
“Believe it or not, I swear I'm just a human being.”

Source : Song: Splurge, Album: Nellyville
“he's a genius, she's a genius, wow, you know alot of geniuses, you should meet some stupid people sometime, you might learn something”
“If there is a lack of specificity in Grossman's description of the town and the walkers, and if the story perhaps sometimes becomes lost and confusing, then it is because the landscape and itsÂ inhabitants are really shadows, creatures of an interior world, whose journey and whose quest are within.Â Falling Out of TimeÂ is short, and clearly a deeply personal book, but its importance and impact ought not to beÂ underestimated.”

Source : "Falling Out of Time by David Grossman - review" by Ian Sansom, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2014.
“There was laughter in the back of the theater, leading to the belief that someone was telling jokes back there.”

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