"When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to, I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if flung forth and plunging downward like a diver."

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#Stars Quotes #Lying Quotes #Eye Quotes

“I have such a crush on Shirley Manson. I think she's the coolest thing.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The birds can fly, An' why can't I?”

Source : John Townsend Trowbridge (1869). “Vagabonds: And Other Poems”, p.115
“When Švejk subsequently described life in the lunatic asylum, he did so in exceptionally eulogistic terms: 'I really don't know why those loonies get so angry when they're kept there. You can crawl naked on the floor, howl like a jackal, rage and bite. If anyone did this anywhere on the promenade people would be astonished, but there it's the most common or garden thing to do. There's a freedom there which not even Socialists have ever dreamed of.”

Source : Jaroslav Hašek (1993). “The Good Soldier Svejk”, Everyman's Library
“One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be.”
“Those who cling to life die, and those who defy death live.”
“Young men do not want to have to take a consent form and a lawyer on a date, just as young women have every right to go on a date and to say 'No', having it respected.”

Source : "Redwood's date rape comments infuriate campaigners" by Will Woodward, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2007.
“I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.”
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”

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