"I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel."

-- Solomon Burke

#Las Vegas Quotes #Sixteen Quotes #Sand Quotes

“My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.”
“I like going to museums and stuff, but I also like going out and doing lots of physical activity like camping and hiking. I like doing stuff that I've never done before. Curiosity is a big thing. Usually it means that people are intelligent and that they want to learn stuff about the world.”
“Clinton Cash book had been hyped by Rand Paul and Fox News as a ticking time bomb.”
“Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery. Writing fiction, for me, is about putting on paper my obsessive interest in something mysterious. I may figure out the source of the mystery, the things that brought some action or image to my mind, but to make an equation of it would ruin the story.”

Source : "Until It Isn’t". Interview with Giuseppe Taurino, americanshortfiction.org. July 15, 2014.
“My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'”
“When work seems like a job, I don't do it anymore...”
“One may ride upon a tiger's back but it is fatal to dismount.”

Source : Ernest Bramah (1936). “The Kai Lung Omnibus”
“It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.”

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