"I suppose there is something appealing about a word that everyone uses with absolute confidence but on whose exact meaning no two people can agree. The word that I'm thinking of right now is genre, one of those French words, like crÃªpe, that no one can pronounce both correctly and without sounding pretentious."

-- Michael Chabon

#Thinking Quotes #Two Quotes #People Quotes

“I have 14 nieces and nephews.”

Source : "Aaron Paul On Playing A Meth Dealer On 'Breaking Bad'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2014.
“My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained.”
“Our stars are quite notorious. I mean, they don't show up on time. This is, you know, something which is very, very annoying.”
“The purest natural food for human beings would be fresh, uncooked food and nuts. A fare which consists of three-quarters of vegetable food and one-quarter meat would appear to be the most satisfactory.”
“When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it.”
“Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition.”
“Start where you are, use what you have.”

Source : "7 Most Touching Moments from Michael Sam's ESPY Arthur Ashe Award Speech" by Colleen Curry, abcnews.go.com. July 17, 2014.
“A fish tank is just interactive television for cats.”

Source : Oliver Gaspirtz (2014). “Pet Humor!”, p.54, Westhoff Publishing

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