"One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them."

-- Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#Fall Quotes #Men Quotes #Perfect Quotes

“Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.”
“You make a mistake, you keep going.”

Source : "Larry Hagman and Linda Gray Share Their Memories of 'Dallas'". "The Larry King Live Show", transcripts.cnn.com. June 20, 2000.
“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”

Source : Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.277, Penguin
“What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?”

Source : Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “What If You Slept ...”
“Golf is a game in which attitude of mind counts for incomparably more than mightiness of muscle.”

Source : Arnold Haultain (1912). “The Mystery of Golf”
“Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.”

Source : "NASA Investigation Finds No Drunken Astronauts" by Ashley Phillips, abcnews.go.com. January 23, 2008.
“Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of its roots, nothing distracts it from its profound homeland and the look that it casts upon the outer world is gently dismayed.”

Source : Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.245, U of Nebraska Press
“You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.”

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