"What would be frightening about me jumping out of the bush wearing a pig mask is not the sudden surprise, not me, and not the pig mask, but that the ordinary world had split open for a moment to reveal some possibility never previously considered."

-- Peter Straub

#Pigs Quotes #Jumping Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“Murder is only killing in the wrong place.”

Source : Pat Barker (2013). “The Ghost Road”, p.30, Penguin
“No rebounds - no rings.”
“I am an amateur and I intend to stay that way for the rest of my life.”
“No, sir, th' dimmycratic party ain't on speakin' terms with itsilf. Whin ye see two men with white neckties go into a sthreet car an' set in opposite corners while wan mutthers Thraiter an' th' other hisses Miscreent ye can bet they're two dimmycratic leaders thryin' to reunite th' gran' ol' party.”

Source : "Mr. Dooley Discusses Party Prospects" (1901)
“Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.”
“Every time I get a bit worried about having made some second rate choices in life I go back and read about the Suffragettes or William Wilberforce, people who were 'wrong' in their own time, and think, 'Ah well.”

Source : "Bob Brown and the media: 'I'll take them on ... they've crossed the line'". Interview with John Keane, theconversation.com. June 2, 2011.
“What you are will make you what you will become.”
“A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.”

Source : Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.121, Random House India

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