"Dangling punch lines to forgotten stories remain in the language like the smile of the Cheshire cat."

-- William Safire

#Cat Quotes #Lines Quotes #Stories Quotes

“For mankind knows hardly a joy which will surpass that of approval of his work.”

Source : Ernest Vincent Wright (2014). “Gadsby: A Story of Over 50,000 Words Without Using the Letter "E"”, p.55, WETZEL PUBLISHING CO., INC.
“Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.”
“When I was at Disney and was a character art manager and handing out artwork that had to be inked we had a thing where if there was any lettering on it I'd hear, "I don't letter," and I said, "Look at it. It's drawing. Ink the drawing." I just learned from Mike Aarons how each letter was just part of the drawing.”
“Nobody ever died of discomfort, yet living in the name of comfort has killed more ideas, more opportunities, more actions, and more growth than everything else combined. Comfort kills!”
“Maybe I'm the badass lady who rids Mexico of drugs, of oppression and illiteracy.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign.”
“I get very deep into the writing and recording process.”
“When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.”

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