"The writer gleans wind scraps; he listens wherever he can. Each day is full of instances;Â what counts, as with all stimuli, is the sympathetic response."

-- Nicholas Delbanco

#Wind Quotes #Each Day Quotes #Stimulus Quotes

“The first thing to say about Eve is that she was a big improvement on the Adam design, or that Adam was an extremely misguided variation on the Eve design. (Consider testicles. Two concentrated nuclei of absolute vulnerability. Where? Dangling between the legs. I rest my case.)”

Source : Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.35, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“When the dog bites, when the bee stings, when I'm feeling sad, I simply remember my favorite things and then I don't feel so bad.”

Source : "My Favorite Things" (song) (1959)
“Remember to do the things you enjoy away from swimming, regularly.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“On immigration, there are a lot of hurdles before anything arrives at the White House.”
“The Oneida Perfectionists, along with some of the others, believed that feminism, and abolitionism, and other causes that they pursued in their own way without participating with other people outside of their communities, were all piecemeal reforms. That's what makes a utopian a utopian, this idea that they were going to create a whole new world from scratch.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“We're so determined to help those we love that we lose all perspective”

Source : Justin Somper (2008). “Vampirates: Blood Captain”, p.300, Hachette UK
“My movies more often are told through pictures, not words. But in this case, the pictures took second position to the incredible words of Abraham Lincoln and his presence [...] I was less interested in an outpouring of imagery than in letting the most human moment of this story evolve before us.”
“Madness was only a handicap only if you couldn't control its irrationalities.”

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