"I marveled at how they were all closed up, asleep with their secrets unseen until you reached up and took the book down from the shelf."

-- Deborah Lawrenson

#Book Quotes #Secret Quotes #Unseen Quotes

“Our public schools need to be in the control of parents and the community, as opposed to businessmen who see the $23 billion budget as a means to giving no-bid contracts to their cronies.”
“When you don't win games, yeah, you lose confidence. That's normal.”

Source : "Didier Drogba: Chelsea needs win streak before thinking about title". Interview with Grant Wahl, www.si.com. January 19, 2011.
“He's the only man I ever knew who had rubber pockets so he could steal soup.”
“There is this idea that appealing to youth is the only way forward. But that is no longer the case. Youth is not everything. Now we have all the baby-boomers in their 60s, like me, who are actively engaged in life - we're not retiring, we're not just being put out to grass once we hit 60.”
“Only a teenage boy would agree to this: deceiving both our parents while repairing dangerous vehicles using money meant for my college education. He didn't see anything wrong with that picture. Jacob was a gift from the gods.”
“In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us.”

Source : Poems about People (1958) "Milordo Inglese"
“Born of the impossibly varied options we have to amuse ourselves, cutting-edge companies are finding innovative ways to tailor our entertainment choices to who we are, relieving us of the burden of finding the diamond in the rough of 500 TV channels or thousands of movies and music albums released every year.”
“I go through the motions of living in society”

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