"Itâ€™s lovely,â€ I said, taking an involuntary half step back. â€œReally, though. I donâ€™t like to handle other peopleâ€™s cookware.â€ â€œThatâ€™s the best you can manage? Thatâ€™s your bright, bold lie?â€ â€œLook, lady, I donâ€™t know about you, but Iâ€™ve never had somebody corner me on a dark street and try to hand me a frying pan before,â€ I snapped."

-- Mira Grant

#Lying Quotes #Dark Quotes #Hands Quotes

“A little personality goes a long way.”
“Life without chocolate is just an existence”
“I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting. The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it's almost never true.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Eomer said, 'How is a man to judge what to do in such times?' As he has ever judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and evil have not changed since yesteryear, nor are they one thing among Elves and another among Men. It is a man's part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house.”
“Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.”
“There are many in East Asia who simply judge students on the basis of national tests. The top universities in the United States do not do that, and for good reason. We need a careful process for admissions that take all sorts of factors into account: different intellectual strengths, artistic expression, economic standing, social background, ethnicity, regional representation and designs a class as a balanced whole.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before.”
“Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody.”

Source : "Richard Wilbur, Winner of the 1957 Poetry Award for Things of This World". Acceptance Speech, www.nationalbook.org. 1957.

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