"I think itâ€™s odd how itâ€™s mirrored my life so much."

-- Eve Myles

#Thinking Quotes #Odd Quotes

“By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.”
“But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every booth there was a roast pig, large or small, as the centre attraction. Six miles of roast pig! And that in New York City alone; and roast pig in every other city, town, hamlet, and village in the Union. What association can there be between roast pig and independence?”

Source : Frederick Marryat (1839). “A Diary in America”, p.38
“For the size of it, a check book is about the greatest convenience I know of.”
“It happens so quickly it seems like it's coming from somewhere else. It's not It just means that you're in sync with yourself. And whatever your goal is, in terms of hearing a melody or a lyric, the closer you get to it, the faster it comes out and the easier it is to "spit it out", as it were.”
“Little things are great to little men.”

Source : "The traveller. Or, a prospect of society". Poem by Oliver Goldsmith, 1764.
“If you are a good giver, you will be great getter. The less you need, the more you attract.”
“Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good.”
“I love life and want to hold onto it. But my passion for justice for my tormented people, for their dignity and freedom, must be greater still. For of what value is a life of slavery, of humiliation and contempt for that which you hold most dear: Your identity! I will therefore not give in to the Turkish Inquisition.”

Source : Leyla Zana (1999). “Writings from Prison”

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