"A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself."

-- Daniel Pennac

#Book Quotes #Wells Quotes #Chosen Quotes

“We should use the transition to a better energy strategy as an opportunity to create a better economy and a better country all around.”
“There's nothing as human as hunger. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art.”
“The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.”
“Frustration, discouragement, and depression mean you are working against yourself.”
“I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure? A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.”
“Jefferson was the rare leader who stood out from the crowd without intimidating it.”
“Mr. Chairman, I think the record should show that for the first time since McKinley, we have a Republican president worth shooting, and I think that's a good sign.”
“If I had been a dog walker, I would have been the most successful dog walker in Paris.”

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