"I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, 'By the time you get this, Daddy, I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!'"

-- Bharati Mukherjee

#Father Quotes #Coffee Quotes #Iowa Quotes

“We came down here to see this teddible scene: people all pissed out of their minds and vomiting on themselves and all that and now, you know what? It's us”
“A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe.”
“As far as R&B, I listen to a lot of old school like the Temptations and Chris Brown.”
“If any one element of French cooking can be called important, basic and essential, that element is soup.”
“Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster and a threat and by so doing turn our own selves into monsters and threats to our fellows.”
“I'm always chasing rainbows, Waiting to find a little bluebird in vain.”
“Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.”

Source : "Punica". Lib. XIII. Line 663.,
“Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 27, 2011

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