"I would have rather had a dad with change jingling in his pocket; one who would have spent the last forty minutes of the world raking leaves for his kids to jump in, so that they perished in one loud, bright instant, giggles still bubbling up from their bellies, never suspecting a thing. Yeah, well. Tough luck, rich boy."

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Source : S. A. Bodeen (2008). “The Compound”, p.62, Feiwel & Friends

S.A. Bodeen

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“Truth and Good are one; and Beauty dwells in them, and they in her.”

Source : Mark Akenside, John Dyer (1855). “The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside and John Dyer Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott”, p.15
“Taking the money from drug operations and all that sort of stuff is something that goes past what most of us in society would expect a policeman should do. That temptation hits the police force at the same time as the temptation to take those drugs that are readily available hits the people on the streets.”
“The joy of painting lies precisely in the challenge of memory and the challenge of translation from the lived experience to the two-dimensional or three-dimensional symbol.”
“February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer.”
“I stumble through a carnival of horrors”
“In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities to the two poles of a Volta pile. On his table was a magnetized needle on its pivot, and he suddenly saw (by chance you will say, but chance only favours the mind which is prepared) the needle move and take up a position quite different from the one assigned to it by terrestrial magnetism. A wire carrying an electric current deviates a magnetized needle from its position. That, gentlemen, was the birth of the modern telegraph.”
“It was like pulling teeth trying to get me to L.A. I hated it for so long, but now I've got this great life here.”
“If someone was to tally the number of human hours wasted in business by people trying to accomplish objectives without being given the authority to do so, we would all be appalled.”

Source : Laurie Beth Jones (1995). “Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership”, Hyperion Books

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