"Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet."

-- Benjamin Banneker

#Gun Quotes #Doors Quotes #Two Quotes

“I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.”
“You got to take the crookeds with the straights. That's what Papa used to say.”
“I had to stop drinkin, cuz I got tired of waking up in my car driving ninety.”
“I always make this joke that I know you were expecting to see the big skirts and the hoops. But that was a long time ago. Artists aren't always seen as real people. If you start out as a teenager, sometimes people want to keep you locked as that. But I'm a woman now.”
“The best sex education for kids is when Daddy pats Mommy on the fanny when he comes home from work.”
“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?”
“We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play.”
“[C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement.”

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