"I had a tremendous horror of going into the Army. That is probably why I went to college for so long."

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Bruce Conner

#Army Quotes #College Quotes #Long Quotes

“For me, the stars are the invisible people on the street that people don't really get a chance to know.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I shop all the time, basically every day, whether it's online or in every city we go to.”
“I am utterly against those confused Olios, into which men put almost all kinds of meats and Roots.”

Source : John Evelyn (1997). “John Evelyn, Cook: The Manuscript Receipt Book of John Evelyn”, Prospect Books (UK)
“Let me put it bluntly: anyone who says that money isn't important doesn't have any! Rich people understand the importance of money and the place it has in our society. On the other hand, poor people validate their financial ineptitude by using irrelevant comparisons. They'll argue, "Well, money isn't important as love." Now, is that comparison dumb or what? What's more important, your arm or your leg? Maybe they're both important.”
“The end of all knowledge must be the building up of character.”
“Hurricane [Katrina] hit the Gulf Coast and destroyed much of the Gulf Coast - that was an act of God ... Now what happened to New Orleans, that was a complete failure of the federal government. Complete negligence by the feds.”
“Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related.”
“I don't think I believe in ghosts, per se. But, my nearest experience was when I went on a weekend away and was in a bar in England, years ago, with an ex-girlfriend. I heard this scratching. I was about to go to bed and I was thinking, 'It's an old ghost.' I could hear this noise, but I couldn't work out where it was coming from.”

Source : "Theo James Talks BEDLAM and UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING". Interview, collider.com. September 30, 2011.

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