"Smoking cigarettes seems to alarm peace activists much more than voting for Reagan does."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

#Peace Quotes #Smoking Quotes #Voting Quotes

“But our leaders of today have decided it's more important to be popular, to say and do what's easy, and say yes rather than to say no, when no is what is required.”
“Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.”
“My definition of a good hotel is a place I'd stay at.”
“When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't my reading level.”
“Once there was a little bunny who wanted to run away. So he said to his mother, "I am running away". "If you run away", said his mother, "I will run after you. For you are my little bunny".”

Source : Margaret Wise Brown (1972). “The Runaway Bunny”
“I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.”
“When I go and speak now at all sorts of conferences, later in the night there's always a better Maxie Walker than me. Billy Birmingham's legendary for basically being able to verbally kneecap any of a number of Australia's characters, particularly in the commentary box.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is not while beauty And youth are thine own And thy cheeks Unprofaned by a tear That the ferver and faith Of a soul can be known To which time will but Make thee more dear No the heart that has truly loved Never forgets But as truly loves On to the close As the sunflower turns On her god when he sets The same look which She'd turned when he rose.”

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