"I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words."

-- Frank McCourt

#Mean Quotes #Jewels Quotes #Mouths Quotes

“I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.”
“Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.”

Source : Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA
“Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise.”
“That beautiful mild woman for whose sake There's many a one shall find out all heartache On finding that her voice is sweet and low Replied, 'To be born a woman is to know- Although they do not talk of it at school - That we must labor to be beautiful.”
“...but when The Spirit speaks,â€”or beauty from the sky Descends into my being,â€”when I hear The storm-hymns of the mighty ocean roll, Or thunder sound,â€”the champion of the storm!â€” Then I feel envy for immortal words, The rush of living thought; oh! then I long To dash my feelings into deathless verse, That may administer to unborn time, And tell some lofty soul how I have lived A worshipper of Nature and of Thee!”
“What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt Held in cohesion by unresting cells, Which work they know not why, which never halt, Myself unwitting where their Master dwells?”
“The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.”
“I am a very outspoken person, and if something makes me uncomfortable, you will know that it makes me uncomfortable, but that's as far as it goes.”

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