"A pun, like champagne, loses its sparkle when too long drawn out. Its flash is its savor."

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Source : Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (1913). “Harriet Hosmer: letters and memories”

Harriet Hosmer

#Long Quotes #Sparkle Quotes #Champagne Quotes

“Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that I shall work hard, but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile.”
“The record of the rocks contains very little, other than bacteria and one-celled plants until, about a billion years ago, after some three billion years of invisible progress, a major breakthrough occurred. The first many-celled creatures appeared on earth.”

Source : "The Enchanted Loom: Mind in the Universe (Letting the Fossil Record Speak; Life - How Did It Get Here? By Evolution or by Creation?)". Book by Robert Jastrow (p. 23), 1981.
“I may, however, begin riding again when I am 60.”
“Self-deport? What the heck does that mean? I have no doubt Hispanics have been alienated during this campaign. But now there's an opportunity for Gov. Romney to have a sincere conversation about what we can do and why. I absolutely advocate for comprehensive immigration reform. Republicans want to be tough and say, 'Illegals, you're gone.' But the answer is a lot more complex than that.”

Source : "New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez Assails Romney's Immigration Views" by Elizabeth Llorente, www.foxnews.com. May 15, 2012.
“Today, Angelina Jolie met with Pope Francis at the Vatican. Long story short: She adopted him.”
“I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.”
“Forgiveness releases you from a past that no longer defines you. Allow yourself to move on.”
“Im actually, for the most part, a complete agnostic politically.”

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