"I witness the birth on paper of sentences that have eluded my will and appear in spite of me on the sheet, teaching me something that I neither knew nor thought I might want to know. This painless birth, like an unsolicited proof, gives me untold pleasure, and with neither toil nor certainty but the joy of frank astonishment I follw the pen that is guiding and supporting me."

-- Muriel Barbery

#Teaching Quotes #Giving Quotes #Joy Quotes

“The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start of Wikipedia.”

Source : "'Modern Family' star Jesse Tyler Ferguson is engaged" by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper and Marc Malkin, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.
“I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television.”
“Being called close-minded by religious people is a bit like being called yellow by a bunch of bananas.”

Source : YouTube Channel "Pat Condell"/"Take Your God And Shove Him", www.youtube.com. August 21, 2008.
“But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.”
“[I have seen] workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of the body called for while they work. Such are the workers who all day stand or sit, stoop or are bent double, who run or ride or exercise their bodies in all sorts of [excess] ways. ... the harvest of diseases reaped by certain workers ... [from] irregular motions in unnatural postures of the body.”
“I don't particularly love live performance of my music. I love writing and recording, but you can't make money off of that.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“A lot of the time when people get married in the infatuation, it will go down. That is inevitable. The infatuation stage will not last forever.”
“The Postal Service needs tools to modernize and compete. That is why today I am a cosponsor of H.R. 22, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act.”

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