"A stick or a stone only stings for a minute. A name seems to hurt forever."

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Source : Barbara Park (1990). “Beanpole”, Random House Books for Young Readers

Barbara Park

#Hurt Quotes #Names Quotes #Forever Quotes

“Take this one in my belly. He (or she) is determined to be here. I can feel the force of his being. It's as if he has something to do here and just wants to arrive and grow up so he can get to it.”

Source : Rebecca Walker (2008). “Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence”, p.34, Penguin
“Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.”

Source : K. J. Parker (2009). “Devices And Desires: The Engineer Trilogy: Book One”, p.219, Hachette UK
“I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.”
“When someone's got your rear tires off the ground, you don't have much traction.”
“The movies are celluloid hemorrhoids. No, worse: They're celluloid Bon Jovi.”

Source : "Hilarious crime comedy 'Pain & Gain' is 'GoodFellas' on steroids" by Kyle Smith, nypost.com. April 25, 2013.
“When I say that the acting is sort of like a normal acting experience, I'm just talking about the interacting in actual scenes, like doing dialogue.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Almost everyone admits to hunger during the Opera.... Hunger is so exalting that during a last act you practically levitate.”
“The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces.”

Source : Howard Staunton (1847). “The chess-player's handbook”, p.24

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