"Blessings we enjoy daily, and for the most of them, because they be so common, men forget to pay their praises. [and miss much of their benefits from grateful appreciation]"

-- Izaak Walton

#Gratitude Quotes #Appreciation Quotes #Grateful Quotes

“Irony is the disparity between what you expect will happen, and what does happen. So raining on your wedding day isn't ironic, it's just crappy. It would have been ironic if she had lived in a place like Seattle, and traveled to the desert of Mexico for a wedding and it ended up raining there, but not in Seattle. Alanis always gets the last laugh though. We all sit here, saying her song isn't ironic, but in fact, that's pretty ironic that she wrote a song called Ironic that wasn't really ironic. Those Canadians are pretty crafty.”
“This is a clichÃ©, but never listen to anyone who says â€œYou canâ€™t do thatâ€. Those are usually the people who canâ€™t do it. Not you.”
“The Marines don't have any race problems. They treat everybody like they're black.”
“In general, I almost always watch foreign films.”
“Booze is flowing all unknowing; grandma downs a few, smiles and giggles happily enjoying her new brew.”
“The Devil is a liar. He cannot win. And that's all we're seeing is a bunch of devils [Donald Trump]. So we have to pray and just look out for one another. Keep your chest out, stick your head up and walk tall.”

Source : "Mavis Staples Interview: Staple Singers, Elvis Presley, Martin Luther King, Jr., and that one time in Memphis". Interview with Ed Masley, www.azcentral.com. March 1, 2017.
“Think of what would happen to us... if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.”

Source : Thomas Lansing Masson (1922). “Our American Humorists”
“People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.”

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