"I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further."

-- Sarah Vowell

#Writing Quotes #Dedication Quotes #Memorial Quotes

“He doesn't bring many girls round unless they're part of a job - but also 'cause his smell can sometimes kill kittens.”
“I think youâ€™re possessed.â€ â€œOld news.â€ â€œHuh. Anyone I know?â€ â€œMy dad. Itâ€™s a family issue Iâ€™m working on.”
“My policy is I am always more than happy to say, "I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings." What I am not willing to do is take back what I said. Unless I am wrong.”
“Thatâ€™s the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.”
“I have had my dance with Folly, nor do I shirk the blame; I have sipped the so-called Wine of Life and paid the price of shame; But I know that I shall find surcease, the rest my spirit craves, Where the rainbows play in the flying spray, 'Mid the keen salt kiss of the waves.”
“And if the years vanish in their course, they are still only successions of days that pass right through us as we pass through them in order to seek constantly what You have to show us... to remain constantly in Your embrace, just as the whole of time remains in the embrace of eternity.”

Source : Adrienne von Speyr (1995). “With God and with Men: Prayers”, p.22, Ignatius Press
“I love to hang out and talk to people on set, especially when I start a new job to get to know them. I like to learn things from the crew so I sit around and ask them technical questions, when I think of them.”
“Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo.”

Source : H. Rider Haggard (2015). “Allan Quatermain”, p.196, Sheba Blake Publishing

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