"Holly, I understand that you are upset because Gemma pulled down your ants, but why did you think pouring motor oil inside her backpack is the way to solve the problem?"

-- Wendelin Van Draanen

#Thinking Quotes #Oil Quotes #Hollies Quotes

“Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.”
“And this tenderness was not like That which a certain poet At the beginning of the century called true And, for some reason, quiet. No, not at allÂ— It rang out, like the first waterfall, It crunched like the crust of bluish ice And it prayed with a swanlike voice, And it broke down right before our eyes.”
“Most voters would rather have their purse or wallet stolen than be audited by the IRS.”
“I have no clan, nor any rank. I am unique.”
“The music is in the air. Take as much as you want.”
“Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.”

Source : Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.209, Macmillan
“It seems to me that the best work I've done - and maybe this is something other people can identify with - was because it was an end in itself. It was something other than making ends meet, it was an escape from all that.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.”

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