"Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant."

-- Charles Dickens

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“This is so cool," I said loudly as Dad walked away. "Have you met the tattoo artist? Is he hot?" "He's a she," Mom said. "Is she hot? Cause I'm still young, you know. My sexual identity isnt fully formed." "Your father can't hear you anymore, Maya." Mom sighed.”
“Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti.”
“The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers..”

Source : Across the Board The Three Rs of Economic Forecasting-Irrational, Irrelevant and Irreverent June 1977
“I never had an official job, but I did play at a local cantina every Tuesday night, and I babysat a lot.”

Source : "Michelle Branch". www.seventeen.com. October 13, 2009.
“Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.”
“Success and average don't have nothing to do with each other.”
“She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate and defeated after winter. Peter Lake was at her side and it ruined him forever. It broke him as he had not ever imagined he could have been broken. He would never again be young, or able to remember what it was like to be young. What he had once taken to be pleasures would appear to him in his defeat as hideous and deserved punishments for reckless vanity.”
“The vagaries of the industry and show business itself would not lead one to conclude a lengthy career - because things change. Popularities come and go. The tragedy of it is that somebody like Robin Williams should suffer from that, and be driven to commit suicide. If ever there was an untimely, unfair death, it was him.”

Source : Source: time.com

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