"Women had been on the verge of taking over the world-the Western world, anyway. Then some sexist pig in Silicon Valley invented the cell phone and women took a sidetrack on which all four billion of them would soon be happily talking to each other twenty-four hours a day, getting nothing else done, and Men Would Be Back."

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Source : John Sandford (2015). “Gathering Prey: Prey”, p.53, Penguin

John Sandford

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“I just felt from personal observation that there is nothing more dislocated or alienated than a lifelong military person trying to cope in civilian life. It's like two completely separate planets.”
“Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.”
“My relationship with Barack Obama isn't based on my political philosophy or his.”

Source : "Sen. Tom Coburn: A proud contrarian". "60 minutes" with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. December 21, 2014.
“You speak baby gibberish?' asked Jack. 'Fluently. The adult-education center ran a course, and I have a lot of time on my hands.' 'So what did he say?' 'I don't know.' 'I thought you said you spoke gibberish?' 'I do. But your baby doesn't. I think he's speaking either pre-toddler nonsense, a form of infact burble or an obscure dialect of gobbledygook. In any event, I can't understand a word he's saying.' 'Oh.”
“Here's the truth: People, even regular people, are never just any one person with one set of attributes. It's not that simple. We're all at the mercy of the limbic system, clouds of electricity drifting through the brain.”

Source : "Memento Mori". Book by Jonathan Nolan, www.esquire.com. 2000.
“I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ***** . . . and I'm all out of bubblegum.”
“Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal anatomy and a poetic anatomy. One, you can see; one, you cannot. One is made of bones and teeth and flesh; the other is made of energy and memory and faith. But they are both equally true.”
“I do know this: When somebody has to look great on the screen, that's the death of funny.”

Source : "Farrelly Brothers: Hall Pass With Owen Wilson & Sudeikis". Interview with Chris Lee, www.thedailybeast.com. February 22, 2011.

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