"Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss. 'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two..."

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

#Fun Quotes #Book Quotes #Kissing Quotes

“It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.”
“My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, New York neighborhood; adults standing in so called 'bread lines,' children begging in the streets.”
“It never crossed my mind to make a film about Muhammad Ali or the Queen or any of them! They just come out of the blue.”
“There's no such thing as an ugly goal. Ugly is to not score one.”
“Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not.”
“This is the Renault Espace, probably the best of the people carriers. Not that that's much to shout about. That's like saying â€œOoh good I've got syphilis, the BEST of the sexually transmitted diseases.â€”

Source : "Top Gear: Series 8". TV Series, May 7, 2006.
“It is Love and the Lover that live eternally - Don't lend your heart to anything else; all else is borrowed.”
“Junior was eleven. The statement is significant. There are a few peevish people in the world who believe that all eleven-year-old boys ought to be hung. Others, less irritable, think that gently chloroforming them would seem more humane. A great many good-natured folks contend that incarceration for a couple of years would prove the best way to dispose of them.”

Source : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1924). “Mother Mason”, p.34, U of Nebraska Press

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