"It was the sort of house that glows with substance and savoir vivre in those advertisements for the best Scotch. It had wonderful bones."

-- Robert A. Metzger

#Scotch Quotes #House Quotes #Substance Quotes

“Secrets are great for acting. Secrets are the best thing in the world for acting, because they keep you looking like you have something in the back of your mind.”

Source : Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2013.
“When they say "Be yourself," which self do they mean?”
“Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.”
“Nothing like a puppet to give you the willies.”
“Fortune and love favor the brave.”
“I'm tired of women who are conservative like me, being dismissed by others because we don't agree with them. And I think it's time to take that word back for all women, not just for those who believe in the litany of the left.”
“I said to myself that I shall try to make my life like an open fireplace, so that people may be warmed and cheered by it and so go out themselves to warm and cheer.”

Source : George Matthew Adams (1920). “Up: A Little Book of Talks on how to Wake Up, Get Up, Think Up, Climb Up, Smile Up, Cheer Up, Work Up, Look Up, Help Up, Grow Up!”
“The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.”

Source : "Speech by Gerry Adams, then President of Sinn Féin, to a Sinn Féin selection convention in Navan, County Meath". CAIN in the University of Ulster, December 1, 2004.

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