"He went out with a variety of women, slept with some of them, hated the whole meaningless process. Drinks, dinners, plays and concerts and gallery openings ... He grew to despise the rigid formality of dating, missed the easy familiarity of simply being with someone, sharing friendly silences and unforced laughter."

-- Ken Grimwood

#Laughter Quotes #Play Quotes #Dating Quotes

“For a moment, Jason could only stand there in the hallway with his nose pressed up against the cold wood of her door. After a few seconds, he knocked politely. Taylor whipped open the door, unamused. Jason grinned at her. â€œI just gotta ask: Where did you get the whole â€˜all the cute girls run around nakedâ€™ thing?â€ â€œI defend sexual harassment cases, Mr. Andrews,â€ she replied coolly. "Iâ€™ve seen and heard things even you havenâ€™t thought of.â€ â€œCare to test out that theory?â€ She slammed the door in his face again.”
“If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job.”
“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.”
“The East Coast, and certainly Boston, has a provincial quality to it that makes it harder to bust out and move up. Try to be too different and they'll pull you down.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody in terms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and Wisdom.”
“I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.”
“Gratitude takes less energy than anger.”

Source : Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.192, Penguin
“If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity.”

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