"Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be on your track like a bloodhound until they are returned."

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Source : Phyllis McGinley (1965). “Sixpence in Her Shoe”

Phyllis McGinley

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“Work/Loaf Ratioâ€...I have spent fourteen years perfecting... I won't bore you with a long-winded explanation of the â€œW/LRâ€ save to say that it is an algebraic formula of such complex numeric subtlety that it can be understood only by mathematicians and hobos.”
“Westerns are a type of picture which everybody can see and enjoy.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.”

Source : Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.109, Lexington Books
“Early love is exciting and exhilarating. It's light and bubbly. Anyone can love like that. But after three children, after a separation and a near-divorce, after you've hurt each other and forgiven each other, bored each other and surprised each other, after you've seen the worst and the best-- well, that sort of love is ineffable. It deserves its own word.”

Source : Liane Moriarty (2010). “What Alice Forgot”, p.367, Penguin UK
“On this International Day of Peace, let us all honor those who have suffered from violence. Let us hold in our hearts the ideal of peace.”
“Our political class no longer has any convictions. You can only pass along the beliefs that you hold. They no longer believe in France - they have a post-national worldview. I call them France-skeptics. That's why democracy is collapsing here in France.”
“I'm suddenly worried people will think that I believe their religion can be summed up on four sex-obsessed sentences.”
“It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you've done the 'Wild Thing' video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you're not gonna top that.”

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