"Does a one-legged duck swim in circles?"

“A lot of black people worked with the police as snitches. We used to call them bimpees where I grew up. And, you know, they were afforded special privileges. They may have been paid by the police. But you never knew who was informing on you. We lived either next door to or - two doors away from us was a known informant in Soweto.”

“The key is to maintain an evenness. Try to play one possession at a time, regardless of what happened on the last possession”

“She's applying her lipstick; I've always believed that the universe invented the color red solely for Latinas.”

“Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.”

Source : Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.438, Penguin

“Fasting gives your body time to heal itself. It relieves nervousness and tension and gives your digestive system a rest.”

“I don't even own a cell phone.”

“People must ask themselves why this earthquake occurred in this area and not in others....These areas were notorious because of this type of modern tourism, which has become known as "sex tourism"....Don't they deserve punishment from Allah?!”

Source : "Tsunami Reactions (9) - Sheik Al-Qaradhawi: Disaster a Punishment for Sex Tourism". MEMRI TV, January 2005.

“There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age.... I have seen sweeter smiles on a lip of seventy than I ever saw on a lip of seventeen. There is the beauty of youth, and there is also the beauty of holiness—a beauty much more seldom met; and more frequently found in the arm-chair by the fire, with grandchildren around its knee, than in the ball-room or the promenade.”

Source : Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”