"No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead."

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#Literature Quotes #Language Quotes

“I do like my breasts. They're great, so much fun. You can do what you like with them.”

Source : "A blonde has more fun" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2001.
“To say that humans are composed of machines is not to say that we are merely machines. Humans are dignified machines. We are (so far) the most extropic, most complex product of billions of years of evolution.”
“Weâ€™re vampires,â€ he said. â€œNot fairies.â€ â€œSometimes Iâ€™m not so sure about that. You see that study your king hangs out in?â€ â€œHeâ€™s nearly blind.â€ â€œWhich explains why he hasnâ€™t hanged himself in that pastel train wreck.â€ â€œI thought you were bitching about the gloom-and-doom decorating?â€ â€œI free-associate.”
“It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.”
“Ultimately, we are deluding ourselves if we think that the products that we design are the â€˜thingsâ€™ that we sell, rather than the individual, social and cultural experience that they engender, and the value and impact that they have. Design that ignores this is not worthy of the name.”
“Getting that first draft out is a horribly hard grind, but that (perversely) is where the joy of it lies.”
“The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.”

Source : Lincoln Steffens (2012). “The Shame of the Cities”, p.8, Courier Corporation
“We had all week to rehearse. An audience would come in at the end of the week and we'd our little show. Most of the ad- libbing happened during the week on the show.”

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