"So here I am. Twenty-eight years old, with thirty looming on the horizon. Drunk. Fat. Alone. Unloved. And, worst of all, a cliche, Ally McBeal and Bridget Jones put together, which was probably about how much I weighed..."

-- Jennifer Weiner

#Years Quotes #Eight Quotes #Drunk Quotes

“If you have time to breathe you have time to meditate. You breathe when you walk. You breathe when you stand. You breathe when you lie down.”
“It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.”
“I went around the corner to motion pictures.”

Source : "Jerry Reed dies - country singer, movie actor" by John Gerome, www.sfgate.com. September 3, 2008.
“How sad they are, the promises we never return to. They stay in our mouths, roughen the tongue, lead lives of their own.”
“My favoured temple is an humble heart.”

Source : Philip James Bailey, “Festus - XXXIV”
“Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.”
“These days it seems the lyric impulse, so seemingly fragile, comes in for a lot of abuse-or simply a lot of mistrust. What's it for, anyway, in this hard-edged, worried world? Into this cultural uncertainty Gregory Orr's spirited meditation on the surprisingly tensile strength of poetry in the face of profound suffering and grief presents a welcome fresh view of the ancient human instinct to cry out and to praise.”
“It's the struggle that makes you triumphant.”

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