"Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind."

-- Richard Powers

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Thought Provoking Quotes

“It would be nice to do a movie where I didn't have to choke the girl to get her.”
“The scriptures are one of our greatest treasures. They contain Godâ€™s instructions to His people from the beginning of time.”
“most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human body, is a highly complex system whose workings are not thoroughly understood.”
“When I first joined 'Dancing with the Stars,' I did not want to do it. It's not what I like, it's not what I believe in... the judges are fake, this is fake, that is fake... there is not a lot of reality.”

Source : "What's the Best Way To Impress a Guy? Dancing with the Stars' Sexy Maksim Chmerkovskiy Spills the Secret!" by Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. April 30, 2012.
“habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness ...”

Source : Margaret Deland (2015). “The Iron Woman”, p.64, The Floating Press
“There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.”
“Men are polished, through act and speech, Each by each, As pebbles are smoothed on the rolling beach.”

Source : John Townsend Trowbridge (1881). “A Home Idyl: And Other Poems”
“Taking part on this show is a million miles away from my normal acting jobs.”

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