"As we passed under a streetlamp I noticed, beside my own bobbing shadow, another great, leaping grotesquerie that had an uncanny suggestion of the frog world about it . . . judging from the shadow, it was soaring higher and more gaily than myself. 'Very well,' you will say, 'Why didnâ€™t you turn around. That would be the scientific thing to do.' But let me tell you it is not done â€• not on an empty road at midnight."

-- Loren Eiseley

#Judging Quotes #Shadow Quotes #World Quotes

“There is a voice inside which speaks and says, "This is the real me!"”
“Nutrition makes me puke.”
“A lot of the kinship that people notice is not coincidental. I was very impressionable and trying to find my role models when I was twelve or thirteen.”

Source : Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.
“I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.”
“The person whose face is between your legs is gonna get lockjaw.”
“All fundamental political problems are problems of relationships; therefore, all fundamental solutions have to involve fundamental changes in relationships.”
“For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.”
“If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.”

Source : "Walter Smith says a final goodbye to a troubled Rangers" by Ewan Murray, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2011.

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