"Morse stared morosely at the blotting paper. "It's just not my sort of case, Lewis. I know it's not a very nice thing to say, but I just get on better when we've got a body - a body that died from unnatural causes. That's all I ask. And we haven't got a body."

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Source : Colin Dexter (2013). “Inspector Morse: The first three novels”, p.356, Pan Macmillan

Colin Dexter

#Nice Quotes #Paper Quotes #Body Quotes

“Change doesnâ€™t happen overnight. It starts with the desire, then one small step in the right direction.”
“We all have to decide how we are going to fail, by not going far enough or by going too far.”
“Tommy Smothers is my longest mentor, and Dave Eggers is my youngest.”

Source : "Don Novello's a man of many words, whether he's Father Guido Sarducci, scribbler Lazlo Toth, or even a political candidate" by Heidi Benson, www.sfgate.com. September 18, 2003.
“Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature.”
“I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious.”

Source : Georg Baselitz (2010). “Georg Baselitz: Collected Writings and Interviews”
“By that time this society is going to be completely different for one thing. Your own son or your own son's son is not going to have the needs for money that you feel you have now. The society itself will be less dependent on money and currency to get along.”
“One day I would love to do rock a gig on the moon - how rad would that be? Isn't Richard Branson flying planes to outer space? Motley Crue could be the first band to play on the moon.”
“I had been right: freedom smelled like ozone and thunderstorms and gunpowder all at once, like snow and bonfires and cut grass, it tasted like seawater and oranges.”

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