"There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks."

-- John Dryden

#Asking Quotes #Proud Quotes #Pay Quotes

“I'm not a vampire movie fan, per se. That's not to say that I haven't enjoyed movies with vampires in them.”
“Swords can win territories but not hearts, forces can bend heads but not minds”
“The fact that he had foamed at the mouth immediately upon dying, indicated that he had a great back jam of wishes and desires and truths that were never spoken...out bubbled all the words he had swallowed when he was alive.”
“I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.”

Source : Quoted in Leslie Halliwell, Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1984)
“Tell a female she's thin and she's yours for life.”

Source : Anne Bernays (1997). “Professor Romeo”, p.134, UPNE
“I'm lively when I perform and I always put everything into a show, but when I get home I love lying down in front of the TV and relaxing.”
“A hand up is worthier than one's own fist grasping a higher rung of the ladder.”

Source : Doris Grumbach (2014). “Coming into the End Zone: A Memoir”, p.8, Open Road Media
“Any kid that feels like they don't have any kind of future, whether they're on a street corner in Harlem or in a little town in Kansas where nothing happens, it's all out there for them. They can do whatever they dream or wish or see on television, or read about in the papers.”

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