"My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that lingers in someone's mind and which they wish to use for their own purpose and which they cannot find in conventional dictionaries of quotation."

-- Nigel Rees

#Jobs Quotes #Mind Quotes #Wish Quotes

“My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.”

Source : Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.138, Penguin
“Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.”
“Uncontrolled or covert napping, however, is still probably very common. One need only move through a building surreptitiously and peek at people to find some subset of sleep at any given time.”
“God must've had a blast. painting the stripes on the zebra, hanging the stars in the sky, putting the gold in the sunset. What creativity! Stretching the neck of the giraffe, putting the flutter in the mockingbird's wings, planting the giggle in the hyena. And then, as a finale to a brilliant performance, He made a human who had the unique honour to bear the stamp, In His Image.”
“All decays begin in the closet; no heart thrives with out much secret converse with God, and nothing will make amends for the want of it.”

Source : John Berridge (1838). “The works of the Rev. John Berridge ... with an enlarged memoir of his life: numerous letters, anecdotes ... and his original Sion's songs”, p.424
“I like things in my hair - big feather pieces.”

Source : "Kimberly Caldwell Reveals Her Style Secrets and Her Pick for American Idol Winner". Interview with Seventeen Magazine, www.seventeen.com. May 20, 2009.
“We are living in a new age of energy supply anxiety.”
“Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too.”

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