"With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull."

-- Charles Churchill

#Stupid Quotes #Reading Quotes #Skulls Quotes

“The thing that I love about television there are no more than two or three people watching you at a time. If there are more than two or three people in a room they're talking to each other, they're not listening to you.”
“'IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU TO DO IT,' WAS THE TERRIBLE VERDICT. 'IN THE FIRST PLACE YOU ARE A WOMAN AND WOULD NEED A PROTECTOR, AND EVEN IF IT WERE POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO TRAVEL ALONE YOU WOULD NEED TO CARRY SO MUCH BAGGAGE THAT IT WOULD DETAIN YOU IN MAKING RAPID CHANGES. BESIDES YOU SPEAK NOTHING BUT ENGLISH, SO THERE IS NO USE TALKING ABOUT IT; NO ONE BUT A MAN CAN DO THIS.'”

Source : Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.103, Golgotha Press
“Sometimes you have to do the things that scare you and that are outside of your comfort zone and challenge yourself.”
“Vibrancy is so universally desirable, so totemic in its powers, that even though we aren't sure what the word means, we know the quality it designates must be cultivated. The vibrant, we believe, is what makes certain cities flourish.”
“I set our house on fire when I was a little child playing with lighters. Boy, did I burn the place down!”
“Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.”
“I've always had this American-pie face that would get work in commercials... I'd say things like, 'Hi, Marge, how's your laundry?' and 'Hi, I'm a real nice Georgia peach.' Sometimes this work is one step above being a cocktail waitress.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I meditate. Meditation helps me.”

Source : Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. October 9, 2012.

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