"A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring."

-- Sholom Aleichem

#Wise Quotes #Pieces Quotes #Substitutes Quotes

“Her sunny side was always up.”

Source : Richard Brautigan (2012). “Sombrero Fallout: A Japanese Novel”, p.77, Canongate Books
“And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.”
“Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.”

Source : "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, 2006.
“I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.”
“If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.”
“If my heart were a compass, you'd be North.”
“If you go far enough out you can see the Universe itself, all the billion light years summed up time only as a flash, just as lonely, as distant as a star on a June night if you go far enough out. And still, my friend, if you go far enough out you are only at the beginning - of yourself.”
“Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.”

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