"I batted my eyelashes and did my best to appear dumb as a board"

-- Ilona Andrews

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“I grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm, so when I come to Washington, I'll know how to cut pork.”

Source : "GOP Senate candidate vows to cut pork, cites experience 'castrating hogs'". www.foxnews.com. March 25, 2014.
“Do nothing to merely interest, assume or attract. This is not your province. Do only that wins the people you are after in the cheapest possible way”
“He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void. Carried forth and scattered and carried forth again. Everything uncoupled from its shoring. Unsupported in the ashen air. Sustained by a breath, trembling and brief. If only my heart were stone.”
“I stand before you as the governor of Texas but also stand before you the son of two tenant farmers. Ray Perry who came home after 35 bombing missions over Europe to work his little corner of land out there and Amelia who made sure that my sister Milla and I had everything that we needed, included hand sewing my clothes until I went off to college.”
“I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals.”
“I have marvelous dreams! I meet Buddha, I meet Jesus, I meet Mohammed. I constantly dream of space, stars and planets: we are the children of stardust.”
“The tools I handle are words. They may be unappreciated or misunderstood, but they tell us who we are.”
“We should not accept in silence the benefactions of God, but return thanks for them.”

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