"It seemed more and more like something out of a children's book - the butterfly that followed the little girl all the way home to her fifth-floor walk-up. How above-the-law children's books are. Hansel and Gretel (littering, breaking and entering), Rumpelstiltskin (forced labor), Snow White (conspiracy to commit murder), Rapunzel (breach of contract)."

-- Sloane Crosley

#Girl Quotes #Children Quotes #Book Quotes

“My influences are with Irish music, church music and classical music,”
“I would love for film to go back to those days where you had to be able to do everything just to get by.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.”
“I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.”
“And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.”
“always thinks of the other; ego thinks only of oneself. Love is always considerate; ego is absolutely inconsiderate. Ego has only one language and that is of self. Ego always uses the other; love is ready to be used, love is ready to serve.”
“Once we came to accept the photographic image as reality, the way to its future simulation was open.”

Source : Lev Manovich (2001). “The Language of New Media”, p.288, MIT Press
“Sometimes things come out of your mouth that you regret later on. Or no, not regret. You say something so razor-sharp that the person you say it to carries it around with them for the rest of their life.”

Source : Herman Koch (2012). “The Dinner”, p.133, Atlantic Books Ltd

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