"Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can."

-- Stanley Crouch

#Dresses Quotes #Trash Cans Quotes #Armstrong Quotes

“And some sad news ... the first lesbian couple to legally get married in the state of Massachusetts has split up. They cited irreconcilable similarities.”
“For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.”

Source : Don Juan canto 14, st. 101 (1823) See Chesterton 6; Twain 93
“Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid.”
“I'm looking forward to seeing some sexy football.”
“Let there be then no coercion established in society, and the common law of gravity prevailing, the sexes will fall into their proper places.”
“I picked up the Bible and read it from cover to cover one weekend - just as if it were a novel - very rapidly, and I've never gotten over the shock of it. The miracles, the inconsistencies, the improbabilities, the impossibilities, the wretched history, the sordid sex, the sadism in it - the whole thing shocked me profoundly.”
“Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.”
“I've been labelled as the 'big girl' and I've not got a problem with that”

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