"Like magic, she felt him getting nearer, felt it like a pull in the pit of her stomach. It felt like hunger but deeper, heavier. Like the best kind of expectation. Ice cream expectation. Chocolate expectation."

-- Sarah Addison Allen

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“The thing that drives me crazy is when comics say 'I have low self-esteem.' No you don't. You're standing on stage asking people to pay. You don't play an instrument. You want people to pay to hear what's in your mind. You don't have low self-esteem. You might have other problems.”
“What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.”
“I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like plays and films that have something to say.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.”
“Are we allowed to sing? I imagine that at times, it might improve the tone of the debate.”
“Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.”

Source : Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books
“I'm a decentralizer. I believe in trusting professionals.”
“It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.”

Source : Kingsley Amis (2011). “The King's English”, p.209, Penguin UK

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