"Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing in a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank."

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Source : Eddie Cantor (1959). “The way I see it”

Eddie Cantor

#Writing Quotes #Browsing Quotes #Dictionary Quotes

“I reject karma and rebirth not only because I find them unintelligible, but because I believe they obscure and distort what the Buddha was trying to say. Rather than offering the balm of consolation, the Buddha encouraged us to peer deep and unflinchingly into the heart of the bewildering and painful experience that life can so often be.”
“The fears we donâ€™t face become our limits.”
“I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.”
“Simple. Pared down. Timeless. The ties were never too thick or too thin; the pants were never too flared or too skinny. In my life with Dad, he wore Western apparel because we went riding - jeans, cowboy boots, the turquoise belt buckle. But it was all very simple, and that classic look is very 'Ralph Lauren.'”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Clothes are functional but that doesn't mean they're not a form of art. They're just another way to express creativity. It could be film, it could garment.”
“A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property.”

Source : Harold J. Laski (2014). “A Grammar of Politics (Works of Harold J. Laski)”, p.157, Routledge
“She had not wanted him to but had let him have his way because ever since she was a child she had generally yielded before anyone with strong willpower, especially if it was a man, not because she was naturally submissive, but because strong male willpower gave her a feeling of safety and trust, together with acceptance and a desire to give in.”
“Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.”

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