"We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past."

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Source : Leo Deuel, Heinrich Schliemann (1977). “Memoirs of Heinrich Schliemann: a documentary portrait drawn from his autobiographical writings, letters, and excavation reports”, HarperCollins Publishers

Heinrich Schliemann

#Past Quotes #Digging Quotes #Imagine Quotes

“Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.”
“my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender”

Source : Ntozake Shange (2010). “For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf”, p.45, Simon and Schuster
“I'm so uncoordinated, I can't really do that much, so my specialty is standing in one spot or holding on to something, like an exploding rocket or a jetski.”

Source : "Johnny Knoxville's house of pain" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2010.
“If you want to stop an argument, close your mouth.”

Source : Charles R. Swindoll (1998). “Hand Me Another Brick”, p.43, Thomas Nelson Inc
“It's not just that Miers has zero judicial experience. It's that she's so transparently a crony/"diversity" pick while so many other vastly more qualified and impressive candidates went to waste. If this is President Bush's bright idea to buck up his sagging popularity--among conservatives as well as the nation at large--one wonders whom he would have picked in rosier times. Shudder.”
“There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.”

Source : "Nuclear Reactions". "Omni" Magazine, May 1988.
“Often I think changes within my work have been seen as sudden changes or sharp changes, but for me they're not that sudden. They have been there in the studio, but not so much in public.”

Source : "A door to freedom" by Chris Ofili, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2009.
“The golden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twisted together, will draw men on with a sweet violence, whether they will or not.”

Source : Ralph Cudworth (1843). “A Sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at Westminster, March 31. 1647”, p.34

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