"The advent of the mobile phone was a disaster. We are forced to listen, open-mouthed, to other people's intimate conversations. Increasingly, we are all in our virtual bubbles when we are out in public, whether we are texting, listening to iPods, reading or just staring dangerously at other people."

-- Lynne Truss

#Reading Quotes #Phones Quotes #Ipods Quotes

“Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.”

Source : An Essay Upon projects 'Of Projectors'
“I love the edited version of it.”
“The reason why we want to remember an image varies: because we simply 'love it,' or dislike it so intensely that it becomes compulsive, or because it has made us realize something about ourselves, or has brought about some slight change in us. Perhaps the reader can recall some image, after the seeing of which he has never been quite the same.”
“There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.”
“If you're constantly stepping outside of the character and judging them, you'll never really be able to fully engage because you'll always be slightly cynical.”

Source : "The Russian Prince". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 14, 2016.
“It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.”

Source : Norman Schwarzkopf (2010). “It Doesn't Take a Hero: The Autobiography of General Norman Schwarzkopf”, p.13, Bantam
“Having the balance of a work life and a family life has been so good for me.”
“Of course.â€ She fluffed her hair. â€œI donâ€™t want to brag, but Iâ€™m very high maintenance.â€ â€œUh, I think low maintenance is whatâ€™s desirable.â€ â€œLow maintenance is whatâ€™s forgettable. You might want to write that down, underline it, circle it and put a star by it. Itâ€™s golden.â€ With barely a breath, she added, â€œNow letâ€™s find out if weâ€™re compatible, shall we?”

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