"[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything would be all right. It wasn't."

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Source : "Birds Who Can't Even Fly". "How to Attract the Wombat". Book by Will Cuppy, 1949.

Will Cuppy

#Would Be Quotes #Eruption Quotes #Footnotes Quotes

“One of my complaints with American TV characters is that they all have a particular schtick, a hook.”

Source : "Today" Interview, www.today.com. Ocotber 1, 2007.
“The love of a single heart can make a world of difference.”
“Sometimes the ancestors deem certain information so important that they send it to the subconscious mind without being consciously asked.”

Source : Luisah Teish (1985). “Jambalaya”, Harpercollins
“I go to the dentist, not a shrink.”
“You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing.”

Source : "The Laugh of the Medusa". Article by Hélène Cixous, Keith Cohen and Paula Cohen. Signs, Volume 1, No. 4, pp. 875-893, www.jstor.org. Summer 1976.
“[He] saw communism for the sham that it was--a bunch of brutes who seized power in the name of the people, only to repress the very people they claimed to champion.”
“I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences.”
“The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.”

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