"On a small planet, where minute follows minute, day follows day, year follows year, where tradition marches on with a deafening, orderly beat -sometimes the order is disturbed by a dreamer, an artist, a scribbler - sometimes the beat is changed one person at a time."

-- Mary E. Pearson

#Artist Quotes #Order Quotes #Years Quotes

“I would love to have my own lingerie line.”
“Frankly, I've come to feel that there are two kinds of people: those who act like thermometers and those who act like thermostats.”

Source : Tom Clancy (1994). “Without Remorse”, p.180, Penguin
“Vans are the vehicles of murderers. Serial Killers. Rapists. Thieves. Nothing good ever happens in a van. Police should be allowed to arrest van drivers without cause. The van is the cause, asshole.”

Source : Shalom Auslander (2012). “Hope: A Tragedy: A Novel”, p.142, Penguin
“Despite my belief that somehow my work would get me where I wanted to be, there was still some kind of fathomless yearning. Yes, my career aspirations were always goading me. But partially, I think I tried to let those dreams replace or become the other yearning, to have that other form of value.”

Source : "'My discoveries weren't any more extensive or alarming than most people's. I just chose to look'". Interview with Antonia Crane, logger.believermag.com. November 5, 2013.
“Look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.”
“Lines drawn into his face suggested he had spent many years thinking very hard over very difficult problems.”
“I have enjoyed the trees and scenery of Kentucky exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles and miles of beauty that have been flowing into me in such measure? These lofty curving ranks of lobing, swelling hills, these concealed valleys of fathomless verdure, and these lordly trees with the nursing sunlight glancing in their leaves upon the outlines of the magnificent masses of shade embosomed among their wide branches-these are cut into my memory to go with me forever.”
“Obedience is the Christian's crown.”

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