"Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires."

-- Alexander Graham Bell

#Animal Quotes #Men Quotes #Desire Quotes

“I learned how to sit on the couch in front of the fire and read a magazine, just for like eight hours a day, every day. It was... crazy.”
“In terms of pots and pans, I just use the basics - Im not a snob like that.”
“When Neil played for me, he ran his legs off. (on Neil Lennon)”
“Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy (conscience) within his gates; and it keeps watch over him, vigilant always in the interests of its master to crush any half-formed desire to break away from the herd.”
“Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war, only patriots - or traitors.”

Source : Last public speech before his death, Chicago, Illinois, May 1, 1861.
“Mutability is the badge of infirmity. It is seldom that a man continues to wish and design the same thing two days alike. Now he is for marrying; and now a mistress is preferred to a wife. Now he is ambitious and aspiring; presently the meanest servant is not more humble than he. This hour he squanders his money away; the next he turns miser. Sometimes he is frugal and serious; at other times profuse, airy, and gay.”
“I'm really not this jazz traditionalist guy you've been making me out to be all of these years.”
“I surf - that's the one thing I make time to do. I definitely surf a lot, but when you're working 15 hour days... all I want to do is get home to my baby.”

Source : "'Happy Endings' Elisha Cuthbert, Zachary Knighton interview". Interview with Catorina Wightman, www.digitalspy.com. March 11, 2012.

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