"Death lies dormant in each of us and will bloom in time."

-- Dean Koontz

#Lying Quotes #Dormant Quotes

“Mr. Agnew, I believe you have a slight swing in your flaw.”
“If we ourselves remain angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. First, our individual self must learn peace. This we can practice. Then we can teach the rest of the world.”
“The thought sometimes -- the unpleasant thought sometimes creeps up on me here as to whether perhaps Khrushchev was not invited here to enable you to sort of rub him in your sauce and to show the might and the strength of the United States so as to make him sort of ... so as to make him shaky at the knees. If that is so, then if I came -- if it took me about 12 hours to get here, I guess it'll just -- it'll take no more than about 10Â½ hours to fly back.”
“I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.”

Source : Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.69, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“I presumably lost $150,000 in the depression of 1937â€”on my one stock investmentâ€”because I did everything Lehman Brothers told me. I said, well, this is a foolâ€™s procedure . . . buying stock in other peopleâ€™s businesses.”
“The media insist that crime is the major concern of the American public today. In this connection they generally push the point that a disarmed society would be a crime-free society. They will not accept the truth that if you take all the guns off the street you still will have a crime problem, whereas if you take the criminals off the street you cannot have a gun problem.”

Source : "Jeff Cooper's Commentaries", Vol. 2, No. 5, May 1994.
“Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging -- but that weren't sweet.”
“Being in an empty mind increases my intuition, my sense of energy.”

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