"The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital."

-- Shmuel Yosef Agnon

#Song Quotes #Book Quotes #Home Quotes

“...sometimes I get tired. Sometimes I get bored. And sometimes all I want, more than anything else in the world, is to go on a freaking date.”

Source : Kiersten White (2011). “Paranormalcy (Paranormalcy, Book 1)”, p.19, HarperCollins UK
“I grew up playing 'Mortal Kombat' as a kid. I was always a fan of the video game. Saw the movies as a kid as well.”
“The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.”

Source : George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.257, Cosimo, Inc.
“I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.”

Source : Susanna Moodie (1913). “Roughing It in the Bush, or Life in Canada”, p.193, Hayes Barton Press
“I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.”
“As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth.”
“It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.”

Source : Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons”
“Well, actually, I do the voiceover for Quentin Sands.”

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