"My Irish passport makes me look like a chief of staff for the Provisional IRA."

-- Jack Higgins

#Ira Quotes #Looks Quotes #Staff Quotes

“She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.”

Source : Susanna Clarke (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.162, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“I both loved and hated South Pasadena. On the one hand, it was so diverse - all my closest friends were immigrants or had immigrant parents. On the other hand, it was a bit conservative - in a sort of wholesome, Midwestern, small-town sense. I never met a single writer until I moved to New York City for college.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Losing doesn't make me want to quit. It makes me want to fight that much harder.”
“Machines have about as much warmth as a cube of ice.Â And that is why the horse is still part of our lives and will live on.Â He was here millions of years before man came upon the earth, and if the cycle is completed, he may still be thundering across the world long after man has vanished.”
“Look not thou on beauty's charming; Sit thou still when kings are arming; Taste not when the wine-cup glistens; Speak not when the people listens”
“Jacks stood beside her. Instead of saying anything, she felt his fingers trace up her palm and then lace into hers. He had taken her hand before, quickly and for functional reasonsâ€”usually to drag her off to someplace she didnâ€™t want to goâ€”but he had never held her hand. Not the way couples did in parks or lovers did in old movies. Maddy stood there and felt the heat of his grip. It made her think of that first night in the diner, when they had talked about pretend memories and she had felt so connected to him.”
“Death is a part of life ... and that part of life needs everything that the rest of life does.”
“The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now.”

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