"I felt tears sting into my eyes, and took a deep swallow of the first champagne I had ever tasted, remembering that I had read somewhere that the monk who invented it said, on first tasting it, 'It is like drinking stars'."

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Source : Anne Rivers Siddons (1994). “Downtown”, G K Hall & Company

Anne Rivers Siddons

#Stars Quotes #Drinking Quotes #Eye Quotes

“The pendulum of economic power might well begin to shift from capital back to labor.”
“I was very fortunate and didn't personally encounter any bullies in school, however bullies exist in many ways in life.”
“You eat meat with your teeth and you kill things that are better than you are, and in the same respect you say how bad and even killers that your children are. You make your children what they are.”
“If you want results, they don't come for free.”
“As awareness recedes into the deep, as when it falls asleep, everything seemingly ends. All that it takes is a gentle touch to your body; meaning has moved and meaning is again aware, knowing, seeing, and if it is home, meeting and communing.”
“When I was young, I had a big problem with warts. It started with one on the side of my little finger. A year later, I had it on all my fingers. My hands looked like the hands of an alligator. So I fist bumped people instead of shaking hands for a few years.”

Source : Source: www.vice.com
“One of my first experiences with the space program was with the memorial that was built for the Challenger. When I was in 7th grade my entire class spent the entire school year preparing to launch a spaceship all together. We all had our different jobs that we had to learn how to do, we learned the math that you needed, we learned the practical skills that you needed, and I thought that was really cool. So I think that if you can take a tragedy and find the gold in it and turn it into something positive, that's great.”
“I think USA has a great handle on programming and content. They know their viewers and they know what works... Character driven programming!”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Tim DeKay Talks White Collar Season 3 and Episode 3.12". Interview with B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. January 23, 2012.

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