"If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen."

-- Roger Rosenblatt

#Reading Quotes #Men Quotes #Mind Quotes

“She had a pretty face, but her head was up in space.”

Source : Song: Sk8er Boi, Album: Let Go, 2002
“But unfortunately, when you have a kid, you sometimes eat everything they leave behind. So far today I've had some of her leftover pancakes with peanut butter.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If, to expose the fraud and imposition of monarchy . . . to promote universal peace, civilization, and commerce, and to break the chains of political superstition, and raise degraded man to his proper rank; if these things be libellous . . . let the name of libeller be engraved on my tomb”
“Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator adjusts in his own mind.”
“Anesthesia is quite remarkable. Its lost time. And you wake up kind of refreshed.”
“But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.”
“My husband and I don't have children. We can't have children because we hate them.”

Source : "Nearly 200 Comedians, All Playing The Same City". "Morning Edition" with Elizabeth Blair, www.npr.org. July 24, 2015.
“Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.”

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