"Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit."

-- Robert Charles Wilson

#Art Quotes #Children Quotes #Lying Quotes

“Rappers can't sleep, need sleepin', B.I.G. keep creepin', Bullets heat-seekin', Casualties need treatin', Dumb rappers need teachin'.”
“I'm the only United States Senator in the country that I'm aware of that's had the far left up on TV and the far right up on TV against me at the same time.”
“But really, there are no coincidences. Coincidences are just other people's choices, plans you don't know about.”

Source : Elise Broach (2005). “Shakespeare's Secret”, p.65, Macmillan
“Commercial real estate always trails residential, and as residential growth flourishes, shopping centers flourish and service the communities, and jobs come out.”
“I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter.”
“Like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake and Robert B. Parker and oh so many others, I want to die with my boots on, facedown on my keyboard if possible, in the middle of a sentence.”
“Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream, toast in a melting shawl of butter, cups agleam and a faint wisp of steam rising from the teapot shawl.”

Source : Gerald Durrell, Lee Durrell (1996). “The best of Gerald Durrell”, Harpercollins
“I think we all [americans] think we're a special country. But the question is, what - what call does that give us?”

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