"By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing."

-- Don Marquis

#Men Quotes #Order Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“Your favorite colour . . . it's green?" "That's right." Then I think of something to add. "And yours is orange." "Orange?" He seems unconvinced. "Not bright orange. But soft. Like the sunset," I say. "At least, that's what you told me once." "Oh." He closes his eyes briefly, maybe trying to conjure up that sunset, then nods his head. "Thank you." But more words tumble out. "You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.”
“THERE IS NO mystery to happiness. Unhappy men are alike. Some wound they suffered long ago, some wish denied, some blow to pride, some kindling spark of love put out by scorn--or worse, indifference--cleaves to them, or they to it, and so they live each day within a shroud of yesterdays. The happy man does not look back. He doesn't look ahead. He lives in the present.”

Source : Jed Rubenfeld (2008). “The Interpretation of Murder”, p.12, Hachette UK
“The first step of handling anything is gaining the ability to face it.”
“The interesting thing about the China story, getting back to the macro and micro, and as dire as I think the macro story is - due to bad credit and credit extension that makes Greece and Spain and the U.S. look like child's play - when you get to the micro of individual companies, they look even worse.”
“I take pleasure in working with the non-art photographs that reside in public archives, essentially authorless and owned by the world itself, because I find the world of fine art photography to be pretty silly and pretentious.”
“I will never know what it's like to have only one language in my head. I have the pleasure of being able to move back and forth between Spanish and English, and I incorporate both languages in my books.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“Hard to believe lightning can strike twice, but it surely did. The moment Caitriona Balfe came on screen, I sat up straight and said, â€˜There she is!â€™ She and Sam Heughan absolutely lit up the screen with fireworks.”

Source : "Ron Moore's 'Outlander' Sets Female Lead" by Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 11, 2013.
“T'was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft.”

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