"I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September."

-- Jon Scieszka

#Earthquakes Quotes #Two Quotes #Lunch Quotes

“You can't be patient if you're not strong.”
“There wasn't a lot of music in the home when I was growing up. We didn't have a piano or anything like that but my grandmother, had been a well-known piano teacher.”
“Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.”
“Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.”

Source : "John Oliver’s Campaign Ad Formula: F.L.A.G.S". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2012.
“By the English common law, her husband was her lord and master. He had the custody of her person, and of her minor children. He could 'punish her with astick no bigger than his thumb,' and she could not complain against him.”
“Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.”
“The mood of the '50s is like today.”

Source : "City Lights' silver lining", Publishers Weekly, July 14, 2003.
“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.”

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