"I dress up as a middle-aged prostitute and do a game show."

-- Paul O'Grady

#Games Quotes #Dresses Quotes #Middle Quotes

“When we try to describe one person to another â€¦, what do we say? Not usually how or what that person ate, rarely what he wore, only occasionally how he managed his jobâ€”no, what we tell is what he said and, if we are good mimics, how he said it. We apparently consider a person's spoken words the true essence of his being.”

Source : Cleanth Brooks (2007). “The Language of the American South”, p.33, University of Georgia Press
“I would far rather over-estimate the threat [imposed by the Patriot Act] and be proven wrong than to underestimate the threat and wake up one morning in a world where the 21st century's J Edgar Hoover has the power to blackmail anyone in America.”
“What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone.”
“I just want to show the world it's never too late to get your diploma, and show kids they should stay in school and not wait until you're old to get it.”

Source : "Flavor Flav heads back to high school" by James Hibberd, www.reuters.com. October 1, 2009.
“The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as long as corn will tassel and cotton will bloom into whiteness.”

Source : Timothy Thomas Fortune, Seth Moglen (2007). “Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South”, Simon and Schuster
“Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldnt consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper.”
“If we desire our faith to be strengthened, we should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried, and therefore, through trial, be strengthened.”
“To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for the Absolute was further proof that I had not understood India. My vocation was culture, not sainthood.”

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