"Hi." "Hi." I shrug, as though to say "Whatever." In my peripheral vision I can see Magnus exhale. He looks a teeny bit nervous. "So." "So." I can play this game too. "Poppy." "Poppy. I mean, Magnus." I scowl. He caught me out."

-- Sophie Kinsella

#Mean Quotes #Games Quotes #Play Quotes

“The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well.”

Source : Samuel Woodworth (1861). “The poetical works of Samuel Woodworth”, p.31
“Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt.”
“Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing.”
“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.”

Source : James Allen (2016). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.7, Xist Publishing
“Sleep my friend, and you will see that dream is my reality.”
“The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to produce an unknown that we may let its ideologists call Socialism the Communist dictators have produced a brutal approximation of monopoly Capitalism, a system that has all the disadvantages of our own, with none of the palliatives which come to us from surviving competition and from the essential division of economic and political power which has so far made it possible for the humane traditions of the Western world to continue.”
“I've been very influenced by Inuit art especially some drawings and watercolors I've seen.”
“To anyone who has ever been owned by a cat, it will come as no surprise that there are all sorts of things about your cat you will never, as long as you live, forget. Not the least of these is your first sight of him or her.”

Source : Cleveland Amory (2002). “The cat who came for Christmas ; The cat and the curmudgeon ; The best cat ever”

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