"Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by...."

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Source : Alan Coren (2008). “Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren”, p.184, Canongate Books

Alan Coren

#Order Quotes #Snow Quotes #Giving Quotes

“There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.”
“One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.”
“The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.”
“The threshold of the Dream Act is not high enough. One year of community college is not enough... No, I do not support the Dream Act.”
“I think we would look at other possibilities that would deliver further passenger capacity, that would deliver further infrastructure to the north of England but would be better value for taxpayers.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The public may think I'm weird. They may think I'm crazy or anything that anyone wants to think about me. That's all fine. As long as one of the things you're not thinking about me is that I'm a pedophile. Because that's not true.”

Source : "Pee-Wee Herman creator speaks out". Interview with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. April 5, 2004.
“memory is so selective; wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.”
“Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: "What's good in my life?" and "What needs to be done?"”

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