"Pretending is the grease of non-relationships. Pretending is how you and I get through the day without ever having to know each other. When I walk in the room, you say to me, 'How are you?' Well, you don't want to know. And, frankly, I don't want to tell you. So I just say, 'Fine,' and you go, 'Fine.' And off we go."

-- Mike Yaconelli

#Grease Quotes #Want Quotes #Rooms Quotes

“You see, this heart, won't settle down; just like a child, running, scared, from a clown. Demi Lovato”
“No other city in the U.S. can divest the visitor of so much money with so little enthusiasm. In Dallas, they take away with gusto; in New Orleans, with a bow; in San Francisco, with a wink and a grin. In New York, you're lucky if you get a grunt.”
“I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion”

Source : Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.418, Rowman & Littlefield
“Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.”
“...."we saw this big dark red leech hanging off his back. We were dancing round yelling: â€˜Weâ€™ll burn it off! Get the petrol! Stay still Mr Kassar, you can trust us!â€™ He wimped out though, and made us use salt. Very boring.”
“I catch myself judging myself as that 13-year-old boy, who, of course, rightfully points out that he is only a child. And my membership - well, I was drafted into the Waffen-SS and didn't exactly volunteer, which was just as idiotic. I wanted to be on the submarines and then ended up with the Waffen-SS.”
“To be embraced, a change effort must be socially constructed in a process that gives everyone the right to set priorities, diagnose barriers , and generate options.”
“In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.”

Source : Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.526, Spectra

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