"Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!â€ he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say â€˜out of the frying-pan into the fireâ€™ in the same sort of uncomfortable situations."

-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#Fire Quotes #Escaping Quotes #Frying Pans Quotes

“And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.”
“Your life is an opportunity to give the gifts that your soul wants to give.”
“You had only one chance for a signature in life, but most people left no impression.”

Source : Meg Wolitzer (2013). “The Interestings”, p.281, Random House
“This is what I wanted to do from the very beginning: write songs and make records and tour them with a good live band.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 5, 2012.
“John Carmack, who has become interested in focusing on things other than game development at id, has resigned from the studio. Johnâ€™s work on id Tech 5 and the technology for the current development work at id is complete, and his departure will not affect any current projects. We are fortunate to have a brilliant group of programmers at id who worked with John and will carry on idâ€™s tradition of making great games with cutting-edge technology. As colleagues of John for many years, we wish him well.”

Source : "Doom Creator John Carmack Officially Leaves id Software". Interview with Mitch Dyer, www.ign.com. November 22, 2013.
“I met Elvis in your woods one night,â€ Terry said. One of the EMTs had given him a shot, and I thought it was beginning to work. â€œI knew I was nuts then. He was telling me how much he liked cats. I told him I was a dog person, myself.”
“Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.”
“She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.”

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