"Authority forgets a dying king."

-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Death Quotes #Kings Quotes #Dying Quotes

“I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie!”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Placing your stick at the end of the shadow of the pyramid, you made by the sun's rays two triangles, and so proved that the pyramid [height] was to the stick [height] as the shadow of the pyramid to the shadow of the stick.”

Source : "A Short Account of the History of Mathematics". Book by W. W. Rouse Ball, 1893.
“People go tanning because they like to feel tan. You feel more sexy when you're tan and I don't understand why you would tax on that, because you're making yourself feel more happy about yourself”

Source : "Snooki From The Jersey Shore Talks to Meghan McCain". Interview with Meghan McCain, www.thedailybeast.com. July 11, 2010.
“Nobody lives forever, but we all shine on.”
“And the boys were all clean, their faces freshly and brutally shaved, their hair painstakingly gelled into exquisite apparent carelessness, with this electric feeling inside of them, which matched the feelings in the girls, that they were all ascending, moving into a future that could only improve them, and I wondered what it was like - the miracle, the stupidity of feeling that.”

Source : Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.89, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
“All the great pleasures of life are silent.”
“The air battle is not necessarily won at the time of the battle. The winner may have been determined by the amount of time, energy, thought and training an individual has previously accomplished in an effort to increase his ability as a fighter pilot.”
“I hope to find the perfect band as well, I really do, and I'm working very hard to find that band.”

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