"Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. Theyre all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. Theyre tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky."

-- Andrew Bird

#Deception Quotes #Honest Quotes #Cliche Quotes

“The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of cities.”
“Making one person smile can change the world - maybe not the whole world, but their world.”
“As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections.”
“All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.”
“It would seem that in history it's never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.”

Source : Sybille Bedford (2017). “A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error”, p.143, New York Review of Books
“Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.”
“All my buddies over the years, like Kevin Costner and the guys - I see em go here, I see em go there - but I just do my work.”
“It's no secret that Europeans and Americans win most Nobel prizes.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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