"There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that one sometimes needs help with moving the piano."

-- Rebecca West

#Sex Quotes #Moving Quotes #Men Quotes

“He is so kind that he makes me search my soul to find new ways to be compassionate to others.”

Source : Sharon Shinn (2017). “Heart of Gold”, p.146, Hachette UK
“I remembered my little brother, Allyn, had appeared so innocent and angelic when he slept--similar to Kerrick. It must be a survival tactic. If Allyn hadn't looked so sweet, we would have killed him while he slept. He had been pure evil when he was awake--similar to Kerrick.”
“I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious.”
“I remember how beautiful the Merrimac looked to me in childhood, the first true river I ever knew; it opened upon my sight and wound its way through my heart like a dream realized; its harebells, its rocks, and its rapids, are far more fixed in my memory than anything about the sea.”
“Life passes by now like the scenery outside a car window. I breathe and eat and sleep as I always did, but there seems to be no great purpose in my life that requires active participation on my part...I do not know where I am going or when I will get there.”
“Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists; as regards things in general, many believe they are in on the secret.”
“I think I came along at an opportune time. I don't know if that would happen anymore, because the whole way of doing business in Hollywood has changed.”
“Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.”

Source : Edward Lee Thorndike (1924). “The Evolution of the Human Intellect”

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