"I think you would like Warren. He drinks Courvoisier in a Coke can, and has a laugh like you'd find in a cartoon bubble."

-- Amy Hempel

#Thinking Quotes #Laughing Quotes #Cartoon Quotes

“Congress: Bingo with billions.”
“I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It's a calling. We want our students to feel impassioned and empowered.”
“There's too many people in the world.”
“The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.”
“The beautiful is and remains beautiful though it arouse no emotion whatever, and though there be no one to look at it. In other words, although the beautiful exists for the gratification of an observer, it is independent of him. In this sense music, too, has no aim (object), and the mere fact that this particular art is so closely bound up with our feelings by no means justifies the assumption that its aesthetic principles depend on this union.”

Source : "The Beautiful in Music: A Contribution to the Revisal of Musical Aesthetics". Book by Eduard Hanslick, 1854.
“There were shadows galore in the dim light, but there was one shadow that did not correspond to any object in the room. It lurked next to the fireplace, a formless, undulating darkness.”

Source : Bentley Little (2012). “The Haunted”, p.249, Penguin
“'Always speak the truth - think before you speak - and write it down afterwards.' 'I'm sure I didn't mean - ' Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen interrupted her impatiently. 'That's just what I complain of! You should have meant! What do you suppose is the use of child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning - and a child's more important than a joke, I hope.”
“The United States government does not negotiate with terrorists.”

Source : "Iranian group tests U.S. terrorism policy" by Michael R. Gordon and Douglas Jehl, www.cnn.com. May 10, 2003.

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