"When I'm not supposed to do something, it becomes more attractive to me."

-- Dan Farmer

#Attractive Quotes

“Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?”
“I hate those endless descriptions of a heroine's physical attributes . . . it really bothers me how in books it seems like the only two choices are perfection or self-hatred. As if readers will only like a character who's ideal--or completely shattered.”
“River Song? Amy Pond? Hardly weak women. It's the exact opposite. You could accuse me of having a fetish for powerful, sexy women who like cheating people. That would be fair.”
“Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.”
“Aragorn threw back his cloak. The elven-sheath glittered as he grasped it, and the bright blade of AndÃºril shone like a sudden flame as he swept it out. 'Elendil!' he cried. 'I am Aragorn, son of Arathorn, and am called Elessar, the Elfstone, DÃºnadan, the heir of Isildur Elendil's son of Gondor. Here is the Sword that was Broken and is forged again! Will you aid me or thwart me? Choose swiftly!”
“Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness of it?”

Source : Dorothy Osborne, Edward Abbott Parry (2014). “Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652–54”, p.165, Cambridge University Press
“In the US. Infantry Manual published during World War II, the soldier was told what to do if a live grenade fell into the trench where he and others were sitting: to wrap himself around the grenade so as to at least save the others. (If no one "volunteered," all would be killed, and there were only a few seconds to decide who would be the hero.”

Source : Anatol Rapoport's statement (1988) as quoted in William Poundstone "Prisoner's Dilemma", 1992.
“I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years.”

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