"Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening ..."

-- Jessica Mitford

#Children Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“It's not the punch you expect that knocks you down.”

Source : Linda Grant (1991). “Blind Trust”, Fawcett Books
“Sport climbing is a lot like sport f*#king. It's a lot of fun and requires no commitment.”
“The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.”
“Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels may alight.”

Source : Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “Collected Poems”
“Every act is an expression of one's self.”
“I don't get boy bands these days. Thye don't write their own songs and everything is choreographed from their dance moves to how they have sex with each other after the show.”
“No man would ever use both hands to hold a cup of tea, unless he was one day's march from the South Pole, with one chum dead in the snow, dogs all eaten and six fingers about to drop off. And even then he would look around the empty tent to check, in case anybody thought it was girly.”
“The present inhabitation of Mars be a race superior to ours is very probable.”

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