"Many thanks for the sending me the book Biology of the Striped Skunk ... Frankly, I doubt whether I shall read it or not, unless I happen to have some intimate contact with a skunk which may induce me to learn more about him."

-- Roger Adams

#Book Quotes #Doubt Quotes #May Quotes

“It is an embarrassment that the dominant forms of matter in the universe remain hypothetical.”
“I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear The Stranger. You May Be Right may be one of the greatest songs ever written.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The birds fly in the wrong places and there are too many stars in the sky.”
“With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime.”
“When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well.”
“Don't mess with our fans or we'll come and find you.”
“It doesn't ever occur to you, as you fashion your mask so carefully, that it will grow into your skin and graft itself, come to seem irremovable.”

Source : Claire Messud (2013). “The Woman Upstairs”, p.25, Vintage
“When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.”

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