"You're safe only when you can't see anybody."

-- Gao Xingjian

“I went to my dad when I was 17 and said, 'I want to be a country music star.' Which every dad loves to hear. And he said, 'I want you to go to college.' So we had a discussion. And I'm pretty stubborn. I'm a lot like him. And he said, 'If you go to college and graduate, I'll pay your first six months of rent in Nashville.' So he bribed me.”

Source : "Eric Church sings 'naked'". Interview with Whitney Pastorek, ew.com. May 10, 2007.
“The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.”
“It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.”
“Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy reception of Christ, but come at once - come as you are.”
“I am a very talented belcher. Very deep and bassy.”

Source : "Q&A: Katie Aselton on How Not to Play Fantasy Football". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.esquire.com. August 28, 2012.
“The Duke of Clarence . . . a prisoner in the Tower, was secretly put to death and drowned in a barrel of Malmesey wine.”

Source : 'The New Chronicles of England and France' pt. 2 (1477); early editions have the spelling malvesye
“And the rest is rust and stardust.”

Source : Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.142, Hamilton Books
“Never take anything for granted.”

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