"Birdy never felt artistic inclination when armed with a marking implement. What came to her were words, always words, commentary and criticism and correction and simple vocabulary curios; she scratched a few of them on the smooth red wall."

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Source : Antonya Nelson (1999). “Nobody's Girl: A Novel”, Scribner

Antonya Nelson

#Wall Quotes #Simple Quotes #Vocabulary Quotes

“New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.'”

Source : "Jonah Hill: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. September 20, 2011.
“I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.”
“When the snow is still blowing against the window-pane in January and February and the wild winds are howling without, what pleasure it is to plan for summer that is to be.”

Source : Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.15, Applewood Books
“I'm not a hard-line Republican, because I'm a lot more open-minded than that.”

Source : "James Denton: Desperate Plumber". Interview with Dan Kapelovitz, kapelovitz.com. February 2005.
“Don't throw the ball before you have it.”
“When you get into Louisiana, it really is like a different country in a lot of ways. The plants you see are a little different, like the weeping willows and the cypress trees that come up out of the bayou. And it's steamy hot.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better”

Source : "On the nature of Computing Science" by Edsger Dijkstra, www.cs.utexas.edu. August 10, 1984.
“Satan has parted fathers and mothers. Filling their hearts with his envy and hate. Aiding their pathway down to destruction, leaving their children like orphans to stray. The family who prays will never be parted.”

Source : "Song: "The Family Who Prays"". 1952.

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