"A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition."

-- Margery Allingham

#Mean Quotes #Luck Quotes #Superstitions Quotes

“Man thrives, oddly enough, only in the presence of a challenging environment.”
“The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals. Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal's gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.”
“In the quiet of this day may you know the greatness of your spirit and may your hopes fly on the wings of possibility.”
“The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.”
“The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.”
“I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing?”
“Do not trouble yourself for your brethren, for we have already provided lands for them, which they shall possess forever.”
“We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day.”

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