"There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth."

-- Peter Straub

#Book Quotes #Adventure Quotes #Boys Quotes

“We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It's almost historically unprecedented. We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.”
“The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian slaves. There are twenty thousand men, women and children in the bagnios of Algiers alone. I am not going to make it twenty thousand and one because your mother didn't allow you to keep rabbits, or whatever is at the root of your unshakable fixation." "I had weasels instead," said Philippa shortly. "Good God," said Lymond, looking at her. "That explains a lot.”
“I'm not a big fan of guitar face. You know, when someone's playing guitar, and they make this really embarrassing face, like they smush their lips together and... they look you in the eye and it's really humiliating. You know some people have that really embarrassing guitar face? I remember thinking about this when I was doing the DJing, because... you do have to focus, and that's what happens, it's your focus face. But you're in a movie, so you should probably lock it up.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do his job when he does feel like it.”

Source : James Agate (1946). “A Shorter Ego: The Autobiography of James Agate”
“My girl and my kid gets the best, always.”
“Our country does not guarantee you success--but liberty guarantees you the opportunity to succeed.”

Source : Deneen Borelli (2013). “Blacklash: How Obama and the Left Are Driving Americans to the Government Plantation”, p.219, Simon and Schuster
“Everyone in this world who has ever dreamed about better things has been laughed at.”

Source : "Fictional character: Grandmother Lettie Blodgett". "A Star Is Born", www.imdb.com. 1937.
“I'm passionate about music, food, books, film, blah, blah. The same things everyone is passionate about, no? Love, sex, connection. Peace. Not f - - g up our planet.”

Source : "Damian Kulash of OK Go: On Creativity, Design, and Activism". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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