"Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit."

--

Salman Rushdie

#Dust Quotes #Names Quotes #Sound Quotes

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”

Source : Italo Calvino (2017). “The Uses of Literature”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Don't wait to forgive until you feel like forgiving; you will never get there. Feelings take time to heal after the choice to forgive is made.”

Source : Neil T. Anderson (1997). “A Way of Escape: Freedom from Sexual Strongholds”, p.211, Harvest House Publishers
“I've received many honors and I'm grateful for them; but I've already received the highest award I'll ever receive, and that has been the privilege and honor of serving very proudly in the United States Navy.”

Source : Chips (Department of the Navy information technology magazine), October 1986.
“Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.”
“If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too?”

Source : Ahdaf Soueif (2012). “The Map of Love”, p.324, Bloomsbury Publishing
“The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide view of the human race, of its growth from the savage to the civilized, which is seen in all stages of social and religious development.”
“At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.”
“When my body gets so overexerted with energy, I just keep going and going.”

Source : "Rap, Rock, Metal Collide in Projekt Revolution". Bucks County Courier Times, July 30, 2004.

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