"I had kissed my share of men, particularly during the war years, when flirtation and instant romance were the light-minded companions of death and uncertainty. Jamie, thought, was something different. His extreme gentleness was in no way tentative; rather it was a promise of power known and held in leash; a challenge and a provocation the more remarkable for its lack of demand. I am yours, it said. And if you will have me, then..."

-- Diana Gabaldon

#War Quotes #Men Quotes #Light Quotes

“I prefer being a small fish in a big pond.”

Source : "Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Stacy Keibler", www.esquire.com. March 2, 2011.
“Don't talk the talk, if you can't walk the walk, Phony ***** are outlined in chalk”
“I'm very spontaneous.”
“There is no finer guitarist than Kenny Burrell”
“Whatever I did, I did with love and I did with honesty.”
“Today in my heart a vague trembling of stars and all roses are as white as my pain.”
“Quantitative work shows clearly that natural selection is a reality, and that, among other things, it selects Mendelian genes, which are known to be distributed at random through wild populations, and to follow the laws of chance in their distribution to offspring. In other words, they are an agency producing variation of the kind which Darwin postulated as the raw material on which selection acts.”
“We're all one thing, like cells in a body. 'Cept we can't see the body. The way fish can't see the ocean. And so we envy each other. Hurt each other. Hate each other. How silly is that? A heart cell hating a lung cell.”

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