"Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing."

-- Edward T. Hall

#Culture Quotes #Sitting Quotes #Characteristics Quotes

“I get recognised sometimes, and that's really cool. I've tried certain disguises, but that doesn't work.”
“Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”

Source : Anthony Burgess (1982). “Here comes everybody: an introduction to James Joyce for the ordinary reader”, Hamlyn
“But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners.”
“O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus who won the Persians their empire. Do not therefore begrudge me this bit of earth that covers my bones.”

Source : Epitaph to Cyrus. "Plutarch: The Age of Alexander". Book by Plutarch, translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert, p. 326, 1973.
“A real woman needs quotes by dead men to get through the day.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 16, 2013
“I had gone into the hospital with the stupid notion that its primary object was the care and comfort of the sick and wounded. It was long after that I learned that a vast majority of all benevolent institutions are gotten up to gratify the aesthetic tastes of the public; exhibit the wealth and generosity of the founders, and furnish places for officers. The beneficiaries of the institutions are simply an apology for their existence, and having furnished that apology, the less said about them the better.”
“I just saw a guy filling up his gas tank with one hand and smoking with the other. Seriously?”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 20, 2012
“Church: if the world could see a snapshot of our worship today, would they perceive that we believe our God is worthy of praise?”

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