"Explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be no loss of wetlands: He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech."

-- Richard Darman

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“Who remembers when we used to rest on Sunday instead of Monday?”
“Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures on the amount of money one has earned, those being the two data most eagerly sought by readers; all the rest is legitimate to reveal.”

Source : "Hell's Cartographers (Sounding Brass, Tinkling Cymbal)". Book edited by Brian Aldiss and Harry Harrison, 1975.
“Every new party, every new bunch of people, and I start thinking that maybe this is my chance.That I'm going to be normal this time. A new leaf. A fresh start. But then I find myself at the party, thinking, Oh, yeah. This again.”

Source : Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel”, p.34, Dial Press
“I don't believe that people are robots. I think you should try to get personal, try to put yourself in the film in a deep way, and try to give that to the viewer, even if some of them will not connect with that kind of universe and surreality.”
“It has always been more difficult for a man to keep than to get; for, in the one case, fortune aids, which often assists injustice; but, in the other case, sense is required. Therefore, we often see a person deficient in cleverness rise to wealth; and then, from want of sense, roll head over heels to the bottom.”

Source : Giambattista Basile, John Edward Taylor, George Cruikshank (1850). “The Pentamerone, Or the Story of Stories Fun for the Little Ones Translated from the Neapolitan by John Edward Taylor”, p.338
“I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet...”
“If someone doesn't like your fiction, it's really insulting.”

Source : Source: www.identitytheory.com
“What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.”

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