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“Still. Smokers out there, you know what I'm talking about. That moment, after you've had a huge meal, say at Thanksgiving, when you step outside in the cold, light up a cigarette and take a deep inhale ... that's about the best moment in the world, you know? All the smokers out there, you know that feeling. Sometimes, smoking is fantastic.”
Source : "Jim Leyland, America's Role Model". deadspin.com. October 3, 2005.
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“Anytime you exhaust yourself trying to relax, that's active leisure.”
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“Even monkeys fall from trees.”
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“A woman is beautiful only when she is loved.”
Source : 1944 Mr Skeffington (with Philip Epstein).
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“Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate.”
Source : Mary Hartwell Catherwood (2012). “Lazarre”, p.307, tredition
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“Endless moons, an opaque universe, thunder, tornadoes, the quaking earth. Rare moments of peace; forehead up against my knees, arms around my head, I though, I listened, I longed not to exist. but life was there, a transparent pearl, a star revolving slowly on its own axis.”
Source : Shan Sa (2009). “Empress: A Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins
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“The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.”
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“Mitt Romney has asked Todd Akin to step down. That's too bad. Todd Akin was the guy to lead the Republican Party into the 16th century.”