"If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them."

-- Jack Vance

#Would Be Quotes #Maidens Quotes #Minstrels Quotes

“Sometimes I would come back from a run, and my artificial leg would have a puddle of blood from my stump. I wouldn't go to sick bay. In that year, if I had gone to sick bay, they would have written me up. I didn't go to sick bay. I'd go somewhere and hide and soak my leg in a bucket of hot water with salt in it--an old remedy. Then I'd get up the next morning and run.”
“People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and education available to them won't get them closer to the comforts that they see others enjoying, the temptation to take shortcuts can be fierce.”

Source : "The whorl of poverty". Interview with Elizabeth Taylor, www.chicagotribune.com. May 18, 2012.
“In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people.”
“Over our history there are always those who want to take this wall of separation and remove a brick here or there or damage it more than that. I think one has to be vigilant and constantly on the alert.”
“Woman? Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man. - Daenerys Targaryen”
“In any moment, I guess we could whip out a guitar and start playing old school.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I do feel Im being respectful to Buddhism and martial arts with Mortal Kombat.”
“If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.”

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