"Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyoneâ€™s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thingâ€™s broken?"

-- Trenton Lee Stewart

#Family Quotes #Broken Quotes #Missing Quotes

“How long have I been here, what a question, I've often wondered. And often I could answer, An hour, a month, a year, a century, depending on what I meant by here, and me, and being, and there I never went looking for extravagant meanings, there I never much varied, only the here would sometimes seem to vary.”
“While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.”
“Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.”
“I'm an Air Force officer first, a pilot second and then Nicole. The female part is last. . . . My job is to be the best right wingman that I can be.”
“I'm real. I believe what I'm saying. If Motel 6 wasn't the type of operation they say it is - and I stay at them when I travel - I wouldn't do their commercials. That comes through on the radio, and that's what it's all about.”
“There's a huge difference between who I am when I make music and who I am the rest of the time.”
“I had never thought that I would be involved in narrative structures. As a young guy, I was more interested in abstract modeling. But as I got older, I began to see that there was no reason to limit myself to any intellectual or conceptual postulate, when in fact I'm a professional student of music.”
“I thought English is a strange language. Now I think French is even more strange. In France, their fish is poisson, their bread is pain, and their pancake is crepe. Pain and poison and crap. That's what they have every day.”

Source : "A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers". Book by Xiaolu Guo, 2007.

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