"In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own."

-- Anna Quindlen

#Travel Quotes #Book Quotes #Reading Quotes

“Forensics I've always found absolutely fascinating. Anything to do with clues. And checking things out and solving.”
“Teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed”
“When I go to the movies, one of my strongest desires is to be shown something new. I want to go to new places, meet new people, have new experiences. When I see Hollywood formulas mindlessly repeated, a little something dies inside of me: I have lost two hours to boors who insist on telling me stories I have heard before.”

Source : Roger Ebert (2009). “Roger Ebert's Four Star Reviews--1967-2007”, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the lord in vain- then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?”
“In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.”
“Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law.”

Source : William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “Blue Highways: A Journey into America”, p.15, Hachette UK
“I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defence of the country can distinguish a mortar from a motor; a gun from a howitzer; a guerrilla from a gorilla, although a great many resemble the latter.”
“The aim of the historian, like that of the artist, is to enlarge our picture of the world, to give us a new way of looking at things.”

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