"There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property."

-- William Blackstone

#Imagination Quotes #Affection Quotes #Strikes Quotes

“I felt like a car that had only been operated by one driverâ€¦ a car its new prospective buyer was determined to take to the Daytona 500.”
“Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.”
“Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms with that knotty-pine 1974 look on the top-floor rear of their houses. Rooms with views.”

Source : "Writers' rooms: Peter York" by Peter York, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2009.
“I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable”

Source : Alfred Lansing (2015). “Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage”, p.11, Basic Books
“We're going to miss Damon. He was a great shooter. . . . He got what he wanted, but he gave up a lot. No more night life, no more warm weather and no more a lot of media attention. . . . I guess this was his first shot at getting something big. I guess he had to take it.”
“I think after overcoming breast cancer, you sort of become fearless and somehow going up to your boss to talk about a possible promotion doesn't seem like such a daunting task anymore.”

Source : "5 Minutes with Hoda Kotb". Interview by Gabrielle Frank, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 12, 2010.
“I look up the telephone number of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, my hands shaking, I open the bar and drink the leftover whiskey, gin and vermouth-whatever I can lay my shaking hands on.”
“Often people with fine countenances and fit bodies were mistakenly assumed by others to have the brains to match.”

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