"After I die, I shall return to earth as a gatekeeper of a bordello and I won't let any of you enter."

-- Arturo Toscanini

#Musical Quotes #Earth Quotes #Return Quotes

“I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.”

Source : "Liberals pride themselves on being tolerant. Are they really just suckers?" by Sally Kohn, www.washingtonpost.com. April 15, 2011.
“Reba McEntire came through town when I lived in Texas. She had this amazing theatrical show with, like, 13 different wardrobe changes. I was eight and I was like, Wow, I wanna do that!”
“Most women would rather have someone whisper their name at optimum moments than rocket with contractions to the moon.”
“It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again; the never-satisfied man is so strange if he has completed a structure, then it is not in order to dwell in it peacefully,but in order to begin another. I imagine the world conqueror must feel thus, who, after one kingdom is scarcely conquered, stretches out his arms for others.”
“At last awake from life, that insane dream we take for waking now.”
“The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.”
“Let us not esteem worldly prosperity or adversity as things real or of any moment, but let us live elsewhere, and raise all our attention to Heaven; esteeming sin as the only true evil, and nothing truly good, but virtue which unites us to God.”
“The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart.”

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