"When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time to deploy your anti-poetry deflector shields that were installed in high school."

-- Billy Collins

#School Quotes #High School Quotes #Shields Quotes

“When you have a valid opinion around, it takes a lot of the pressure off.”
“They first condemn that first advised the ill.”
“With randomness it is very unlikely to be embarrassed, but even if you get embarrassed, you can't replicate it.”
“What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as enigmatic, the selfish as forgetful, the angry as impassioned.”
“If you`re wanting to do policy, it should be bipartisan.”
“If I must drool, I may as well drool on cashmere.”

Source : Jean-Dominique Bauby (2008). “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, p.17, Knopf Group E-Books
“Dre couldn't have given me those words to write, and he couldn't have given me that voice to sing. I couldn't have given him that musical talent or the ability that he has. What we made came from putting things together. I've always said that.”
“Getting lost in human perception is a very scary idea.”

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