"Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed."

-- Elie Wiesel

#Night Quotes #Long Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“This Administration has led us into an area without vision. Bush has no clear understanding of what is being asked of the citizens, and the military is under his direction.”
“If you are to use Alexander Graham Bellâ€™s product, which is to say the blower, you should, in all courtesy, use it as he would have wished; and Dr Bell insisted that all phone calls should begin with the words â€˜Ahoy, ahoyâ€™. Nobody knows why he insisted this â€“ he had no connection to the navy â€“ but insist he did and started every phone call that way. Nobody else did, and it was at the suggestion of his great rival Edison that people took to saying â€˜Helloâ€™. This seems unfair.”

Source : Mark Forsyth (2012). “Mark Forysth's Gemel Edition: The Etymologicon and The Horologicon ebook bundle”, p.334, Icon Books Ltd
“I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men”
“At this young age I am already sold on the idea of the dog. One of God's absolutely greatest inventions and one that needs no more tinkering. The dog is the perfect beast, companion, friend, shoulder to lean on, and scapegoat when too many cookies are missing. And a dog won't hold that against you, either. I am at peace sitting in silence with a dog.”

Source : Rick Springfield (2010). “Late, Late at Night”, p.45, Simon and Schuster
“The offender never pardons.”
“There is one curious fact noticeable in regard to this thing called "luck," which is, that while it is made responsible for any turn of affairs that we feel to be discreditable to us, it rarely has credit for an opposite state of things; but, like most other faithful allies in victory, comes poorly off.”
“Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina lowcountry is an almost irreversible antidote to the charms of other landscapes, other alien geographies. You can be moved profoundly by other vistas, by other oceans, by soaring mountain ranges, but you can never be seduced. You can even forsake the lowcountry, renounce it for other climates, but you can never completely escape the sensuous, semitropical pull of Charleston and her marshes.”

Source : Pat Conroy (2010). “The Lords of Discipline: A Novel”, p.21, Open Road Media
“We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.”

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