"Age could not wither nor custom stale her infinite monotony: in fact, neither Age nor Custom could do anything (as they said, their voices rising) with the American novelist Gertrude Johnson."

-- Randall Jarrell

#Voice Quotes #Age Quotes #Gertrude Quotes

“If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion.”
“Pakistan is the most dangerous country on Earth.”

Source : Joseph Cirincione (2013). “Nuclear Nightmares: Securing the World Before It Is Too Late”, p.119, Columbia University Press
“It's not how long a man lives, but how well he uses the time allotted him.”
“I mean, full stops are quite important, aren't they? Yet by contrast to the versatile apostrophe, they are stolid little chaps, to say the least. In fact one might dare to say that while the full stop is the lumpen male of the punctuation world (do one job at a time; do it well; forget about it instantly), the apostrophe is the frantically multi-tasking female, dotting hither and yon, and succumbing to burn-out from all the thankless effort.”
“We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.”
“Most of the pack would rather have Darryl mad at them than Auriele.”
“It's not a model if it's full-size. It's a ice-breaker!”
“It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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