"The pigeons are ***** on George M. Cohan. I shoo them off. They fly up and perch on his hat. Cohan would've never given his regards to Broadway if he saw how dirty they kept his statue in Duffy Square. New Yorkers walk right by. Nobody cares."

-- John Lahr

#Dirty Quotes #Squares Quotes #Care Quotes

“Government control of the economy, no matter in whose behalf, has been the source of all the evils in our industrial society -- and the solution is laissez-faire capitalism, i.e., the abolition of any and all forms of intervention in production and trade, the separation of State and Economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of Church and State.”
“Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.”
“Secrecy begets tyranny.”
“It's daring to be curious about the unknown, to dream big dreams, to live outside prescribed boxes, to take risks, and above all, daring to investigate the way we live until we discover the deepest treasured purpose of why we are here.”

Source : Luci Swindoll (2003). “I Married Adventure”, p.9, Thomas Nelson Inc
“This is what it means to be a woman in this world. Every step is a bargain with pain. Make your black deals in the black wood and decide what youâ€™ll trade for power. For the opposite of weakness, which is not strength but hardness. I am a trap, but so is everything. Pick your price. I am a huckster with a hand in your pocket. I am freedom and I will eat your heart.”
“The love of literature, of language, of the mystery of the mind and heart showing themselves in the minute, strange, and unexpected combinations of letters and words, in the blackest and coldest printâ€”the love which he had hidden as if it were illicit and dangerous, he began to display, tentatively at first, and then boldly, and then proudly.”

Source : John Edward Williams (1965). “Stoner: A Novel”
“This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation.”
“You have to find out how to become the character.”

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