"In the railroads, some people read clearly printed departure signs and then proceed to ask several times what they say. On airplanes, they demand things they know they cannot have. In their cars, they load up, drive away and then suddenly realize they don't know where they're going."

-- Lucinda Franks

#Airplane Quotes #Car Quotes #People Quotes

“The difference between him and the other boys at such a time was that they knew it was make-believe, while to hime make-believe and true were exactly the same thing. This sometimes troubled them, as when they had to make-believe that they had had their dinners.”
“The Equal Rights Amendment would "turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock."”
“The owl flies, in the moonlight, over a field where the wounded cry out. Like the owl, I fly in the night over my own misfortune.”
“Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore.”
“I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.”

Source : Alberto Manguel (2014). “A History of Reading”, p.36, Penguin
“It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.”
“The greatest advantage in gambling lies in not playing at all.”

Source : "Liber de ludo aleae". Book by Gerolamo Cardano, 1560.
“And the wicked thing is, that when we're really upset, we always take it out on the people who are closest and whom we love the most.”

Source : Rosamunde Pilcher (2011). “Winter Solstice”, p.466, Macmillan

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