"Life is never what one dreams. It is seldom what one desires, but for the vital spirit and the eager mind, the future will always hold the search for buried treasure and the possibility of high adventure."

-- Ellen Glasgow

#Dream Quotes #Adventure Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Valentine's Day is devoted to love. Why don't we have a day devoted to hatred? The raw, visceral hatred that is felt every hour of the day by ordinary people, but is repressed for reasons of social order. I think it would be very cathartic, and it would certainly make for an exciting six o'clock news.”
“The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.”
“Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise.”
“I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists and feminists - firmly in their place.”
“I love going to tag sales, to auctions.”

Source : "ABC's Lara Spencer can't wait to host 'Antiques Roadshow' in 2004". Interview with Mary Daniels, articles.chicagotribune.com. July 20, 2003.
“Scientists tracking mirror neurons noticed that a monkey will get excited not just when holding a banana, but also when seeing someone else holding a banana.”
“A diamond, though set in horns, is still a diamond, and sparkles in purest gold.”
“I just talk a lot, that's the problem.”

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