"When a New Yorker looks like he has a suntan, it's probably rust."

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Laurence J. Peter

#Travel Quotes #Home Quotes #Looks Quotes

“Straw purchasing is illegal.”

Source : "Reps. Chaffetz & Quigley on 'Fast and Furious'". www.realclearpolitics.com. June 27, 2012.
“It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.”

Source : Letter to T. Attwood, October 1831, after the rejection in the House of Lords of the Reform Bill (7 October 1831)
“If the oncoming mutation to interstellar immortality is screwed up by the politicians, it will be because those of us who see the opportunities in modern science are not adroit enough to outmaneuver the forces of inertia, stupidity and greed. Well, if we're not intelligent enough to overcome such obstacles, then we don't deserve to carry off the mutation at this stage of evolution.”
“Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving.”
“My mom said, 'Don't get married. You're too young. Go out there and experience what life has to offer.' And I did.”
“I would say I don't like people who are really into themselves or are very materialistic. Just always talking themselves up. Not being real is the pet peeve. Be true to yourself.”
“You see, for me [art]'s not one of life's ornaments, rococo relaxation to be greeted affably after a day of hard work; I'm inverted on this : for me it's my very breath, the one thing necessary, and all else is excretion and a latrine.”
“Then he [The Star Child] waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something.”

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