"The 50s face was angry, the 60s face was well-fed, the 70s face was foxy. Perhaps it was the right expression: there was a lot to be wary about."

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Source : 1979 In the Observer Magazine, 30 Dec.

Keith Waterhouse

#Expression Quotes #Faces Quotes #Feds Quotes

“There were sirens and the cops were there and they took me to the police station and I got arrested, it was really embarrassing. They actually just- they impeached me over the whole thing, they tried, well, they did impeach me, but I didn't have to actually stop being president, so it was okay. The police weren't actually that involved, it was mostly Congress.”
“As for explaining mathematical phenomena it opens the question: explaining to whom? humans?, other computers?”
“Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.”
“Fate knows all about you, it knows your fears and your weaknesses and your confidences and strengths, and it can be ready for all of them when it decides that the time is right. It can move you like a pawn in a terrible game of chess, sacrifice you for the good of others, drop you from a building you should never have been inside, give you a disease that no one has ever heard of. Luck and chance are impartial. Fate is active. It picks on people. Almost as if it thinks about things too much ...”

Source : Tim Lebbon (2003). “Face”, Dorchester Publishing Company Incorporated
“Letters to the editors of English and American newspapers often contain expressions of horror about the new terms that creep into the language, and these expressions are usually accompanied by dire predictions about ruination of the mother tongue.”

Source : Peter Farb (2015). “Word Play: What Happens When People Talk”, p.331, Vintage
“Reveal yourself, mage! Only a coward stays cloaked in invisibility.”

Source : Kristen Britain (2004). “First Rider's Call: Book Two of Green Rider”, p.182, Penguin
“It seems to me that most people are interested in reading about characters who are richer than they are.”
“Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.”

Source : Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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