"You're from where?" "Lay'en. It's near Salt Lake City." "Spell that for me." "Um, that would be S-A-L-T-" "No, the other one. The city you're from." "Oh. L-A-Y-T-O-N." "Ah-Lay-ton." That's what I said." "No you didn't. You just said, 'Lay'en.'" "So I did. But just go ahead and pronounce 'aluminum' for me, Mr. British Man. How are you going to defend that piece of insanity? Why don't you spell it and count syllables and see if your al-um-in-ium makes sense whatsoever?" He bowed his head. "TouchÃ©..."

-- Shannon Hale

#Men Quotes #Cities Quotes #Lakes Quotes

“That which is priceless has no cost.”
“Do you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns? I have been changed to a hound with one red ear; I have been in the Path of Stones and the Wood of Thorns....”
“Every child can learn, and we mean it... excuses are not good enough, we need results.”
“The biggest change we have to tackle that's out there is that we're digging the hole deeper and deeper and spending is totally out of control. And that's something that, quite frankly, is affecting future generations. You're giving a lot of debt to them and you can't keep doing it. It's not helping anybody.”

Source : "Shutdown Corner interview: Congressman-elect Jon Runyan". Interview with Chris Chase, sports.yahoo.com. November 05, 2010.
“Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war.”

Source : "Hardball" Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. July 26, 2006.
“If someone's 20 years old and every third line out of their mouth is anti-something specific, then draw your own conclusion.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. October 20, 2009.
“To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow intuitive feeling. Logic can tell you superficially where a path might lead to, but it cannot judge whether your heart will be in it.”
“We need to think deeply about whether we can sustain banks that are not only too big to fail, but potentially too big to bail.”

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