"I remember one time I heard this English professor asking the class what the world's scariest noise is. Is it a man crying out in pain? A woman's scream of terror? A gunshot? A baby crying? And the professor shakes his head and says, 'No, the scariest noise is, you're all alone in your dark house, you know you're all alone, you know that there is no chance anyone else is home or within milesâ€”and then, suddenly, from upstairs, you hear the toilet flush."

-- Harlan Coben

#Baby Quotes #Pain Quotes #Home Quotes

“I hope what people learned from watching me is that just because you do things a little differently doesn't mean you can't do them just as well.”

Source : "Chasing an Impossible Dream" by Jim Abbott, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2015.
“Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.”
“As an adult I generally feel this pressure to be thin, not from men, but from other women. As a silent or not-so-silent competition, a constant monitoring of who's thinner, comments about it - either compliments or veiled insults doesn't matter - it always drives me nuts.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Chance favors the prepared mind. The more you practice, the luckier you become.”
“Go ahead and do what you're doing.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Great Spirit when we come singing. When we face the sunset the last song, may it be, without shame, singing "It is finished in beauty. It is finished in beauty!"”
“The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.”

Source : "Tomgram: Laura Poitras and Tom Engelhardt, The Snowden Reboot". Interview with Tom Engelhardt, www.tomdispatch.com. October 19, 2014.
“Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him and far away, relating a person to the whole world, that is the meaning of cinema.”

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