"I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious."

-- Sheldon Harnick

#Curious Quotes #Used Quotes #Obscenity Quotes

“Fred Astaireâ€™s got nothing on me.”
“In all my life, I'd never been as sure of anything, and as much as I hoped to one day hear Savannah say these words to me, what mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations.”
“Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.”

Source : "As I See it: The Autobiography of J. Paul Getty". Book by Jean Paul Getty, Getty Publications, p. 106, 2003.
“Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.”
“I have found heaven on earth, since heaven is God, and God is in my soul.”

Source : Elizabeth of the Trinity (Catez) (2014). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth of the Trinity vol. 2: Letters from Carmel”, p.51, ICS Publications
“Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't.”
“The solution really has to lie within the Iraqi people.”
“Wallace's sales agent, back in London, heard mutterings from some naturalists that young Mr. Wallace ought to quit theorizing and stick to gathering facts. Besides expressing their condescension toward him in particular, that criticism also reflected a common attitude that fact-gathering, not theory, was the proper business of all naturalists.”

Source : David Quammen (1996). “The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions”, Vintage

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