"We didnâ€™t have Facebook in my day, we had a phone book but you wouldnâ€™t waste an afternoon on it"

-- Betty White

#Book Quotes #Phones Quotes #Afternoon Quotes

“Last night I dreamed that I came face to face with a picture I had done and forgotten, a forest done in simple movement, just forms of trees moving in space. That is the third time I have seen pictures in my dreams, a glint of what I am striving to attain.”

Source : Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.49, D & M Publishers
“I was very disturbed when Jesus found a demon in a guy, and he put the demon in a herd of pigs, then sent them off a cliff. What did the pigs do? I could never figure that out. It just seemed very un-Christian. Technically, I'm an agnostic, but I definitely believe in hell -- especially after watching the fall TV schedule.”
“Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.”

Source : Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.129, Simon and Schuster
“The NCAA wants to control the images; they say they own your image forever. If you look through this faÃ§ade, it's crazy.”
“The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a boon and a path out of poverty.”

Source : Diane Ravitch (2000). “The Great School Wars: A History of the New York City Public Schools”, p.244, JHU Press
“Gospel isn't some ditty to make people enjoy their afternoon - it's communicating with God.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception. There were times I stayed in my room for days on end with headphones on, if only so that I would not have to listen to my mother cry. There were the weeks that my father worked round-the-clock shifts, so that he wouldn't have to come home to a house that felt too big for us.”
“That's her secret, I suppose. Everything that happens to her she's proud of. She makes it special by it happening to her.”

Source : Melvin Burgess (2014). “Junk”, p.122, Random House

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