"In all my years of New York cab riding I have yet to find the colorful, philosophical cabdriver that keeps popping up on the late movies."

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Source : Jean Shepherd (2010). “The Ferrari in the Bedroom”, p.78, Broadway Books

Jean Shepherd

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“When I'm in the game [softball], it's not so much mechanics. It's more of just trusting my teammates, trusting myself, trusting my preparation that we've put in to get there. When you're in the game, it's go-mode. There's going to be times when you're tweaking things but when you're in that game mode, you just want to think about that one next pitch.”

Source : "Jennie Finch Interviewed by Gary Leland". fastpitch.tv. March 13, 2014.
“Homosexuals are entering the mainstream, because they're becoming as boring and as tedious as any other splinter group.”
“The enemies of the Soviet state calculate that the heavy loss we have borne will lead to disorder and confusion in our ranks. But their expectations are in vain: bitter disillusionment awaits them. He who is not blind sees that our party, during its difficult days, is closing its ranks still more closely, that it is united and unshakable.”

Source : "The Current Digest of the Soviet Press". Issued by the Joint Committee on Slavic Studies, p. 9, 1953.
“The only time that I am really truly happyâ€”when I feel at my bestâ€”is when I'm on the stage.”
“My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America, and over the years they were proven right.”

Source : James McBride (2012). “The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother”, p.21, A&C Black
“There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.”

Source : "Life on Earth". TV Mini-Series, Documentary, www.imdb.com. 1979.
“How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.”
“I have always been kind of a prude. But kissing is harmless to me, and sometimes a kiss can tell if it's even worth seeing that person again!”

Source : Source: www.seventeen.com

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