"It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't."

-- Russell Hoban

#Silly Quotes #Animal Quotes #Earth Quotes

“At that moment I didn't particularly care if a band of raging marauders tried to do her in,but if there were frequent attacks on her "castle," I thought I should know.”
“I'll acknowledge that I'm from Canada but I don't think I'll acknowledge that I'm Canadian.”
“The United States of course wants to follow the highest standards of conduct with regard to enemy combatants who follow the rules of war. It should and does follow the Geneva Conventions scrupulously when fighting the armed forces of other nations that have signed the Geneva Conventions or follow their principles.”

Source : "Aaron Hernandez: Arrest Warrant Issued For Patriots' Tight End In Connection To Murder Investigation", www.foxnews.com. June 21, 2013.
“You didn't want to bring home anything but an A or a B. To my mom, a C was like an F.”
“Fundamentally the marksman aims at himself.”
“What characters do must grow out of who they are, and who they are is, in turn, influenced by what you make happen to them.”

Source : Nancy Kress (2004). “Dynamic Characters”, p.5, Writer's Digest Books
“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”

Source : "Tom Waits: A Raspy Voice Heads To The Hall Of Fame". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 21, 2002.
“No, and in fact I get a bit frustrated, because I'm actually quite good at one-liners, and I've had hundreds of them over the years, and they sink without trace, and I get very frustrated. Every party conference I really work on the speeches, and I always have two or three things I'm quite proud of, and no one ever remembers them.”

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