"And the storm went on. It roared, it bellowed, and it screeched: it thumped and it kerwhalloped. The great seas would come bunt agin the rocks, as if they were bound to go right though to Jersey City, which they used to say was the end of the world."

-- Laura E. Richards

#Loss Quotes #Rocks Quotes #Sea Quotes

“Booyah, I will summon the ninja. Oh, and take a lunch break while we burgle." "You're going, too?" "Am I not ninja enough? Are you saying that I lack ninja?" "No, I was just thinking you're a little, uh, recognizable, maybe?" Eve batted her thick eyelashes. "Why, thank you, sweetie. That's the nicest insult I've had today, not counting the jock who said he'd date me but he had a restraining order out for necrophelia.”
“And I thought I'd always like some form of business, I didn't know what kind of business I'd go in.”
“If you just take one foot in front of the other without any protection, you may end up falling off the fence.”
“I do not like the phrase: Never cross a bridge till you come to it. The world is owned by men who cross bridges on their imaginations miles and miles in advance of the procession.”

Source : Bruce Barton (1920). “It's a Good Old World: Being a Collection of Little Essays on Various Subjects of Human Interest”
“It certainly is gravy every day above ground right now, after kicking that ***** habit. I've been given a second chance in life, and I don't want to let a minute go by without enjoying it.”
“It felt like love to me. It embraced me. I accepted it and thought, "Well, this is how [Dre] loves." I got that from my mother and from my grandmother, who were abused.”
“Hoeing: A manual method of severing roots from stems of newly planted flowers and vegetables.”
“Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities.”

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