"I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the duncoloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material?"

-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Fog Quotes #Yellow Quotes #House Quotes

“I'm pretty slapstick in my life but nobody sees that. You get typecast. I'm from New York and I have a sh*t-detector that's outspoken. I'm very streetwise and the producers detect that. So they get me on a movie and kill me. I go into their offices and I'm sure when I leave they say, 'You know, he'd be great to kill'. I've been killed every way you can imagine.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?”
“Closure isn't closure until someone's ready to close the door.”

Source : Jonathan Maberry (2011). “Rot and Ruin”, p.340, Simon and Schuster
“Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners.”

Source : Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.111, New Victoria Publishers
“If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?”
“It is necessary to have party organization if we are to have effective and efficient government. The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization, and the only difference between a disorganized country and one that has the advantage of a wise and sound government is fundamentally a question of organization.”
“Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.”
“An arc of crisis stretches along the shores of the Indian Ocean, with fragile social and political structures in a region of vital importance to us threatened with fragmentation. The resulting political chaos could well be filled by elements hostile to our values and sympathetic to our adversaries.”

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