"When you're a kid, if you watch 'The Jeffersons' with your family at seven o'clock, it seems like a natural phenomenon, like the sun setting. The universe is a strange, strange place when all of a sudden you can't use your glass with the Bionic Woman on it any more."

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Source : Heather O'Neill (2009). “Lullabies for Little Criminals: A Novel”, p.27, Harper Collins

Heather O'Neill

#Kids Quotes #Strange Places Quotes #Glasses Quotes

“Magic Johnson is the best player who plays on the ground, and Michael Jordan is the best player who plays in the air.”
“Getting up to dance to your own stuff looks pretty pretentious. And leaving the dancefloor when it comes on is just awkward.”
“The concept that you cannot own the airwaves has caused far more harm than good.”
“Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love-he was not man.”
“Heavenly Father is constantly raining blessings upon us, but it is our fear, doubt, and sin that, like an umbrella, block these blessings from reaching us.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dieter F Uchtdorf from Sep 28, 2014
“Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.”

Source : Mary E. Pearson (2011). “The Fox Inheritance”, p.201, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
“There is no way that me or anyone else could be like Coach Bryant. I think it would be ridiculous for anyone to try.”
“When I'm watching somebody act, it's a behavior editorial function - I look at someone act, and I might say, 'I don't believe him when he says that.' I don't know why I don't believe him, probably because the people that I've met, they don't act like that when they say stuff like that and mean it.”

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