"I am very sorry to say that I rejoiced when I once more perceived the towers of Windsor behind me."

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Source : Karl Philipp Moritz (1886). “Travels in England in 1782”

Karl Philipp Moritz

#Sorry Quotes #Towers Quotes #Behinds Quotes

“It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.”
“Decisions. Where, what, why. Can't handle them. So I'm prolonging the indecision with higher education.”

Source : Kamila Shamsie (2011). “Salt and Saffron”, p.16, A&C Black
“[Great scientists] are men of bold ideas, but highly critical of their own ideas: they try to find whether their ideas are right by trying first to find whether they are not perhaps wrong. They work with bold conjectures and severe attempts at refuting their own conjectures.”
“Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.”
“I'm one of these people that likes adrenaline and new things, like extreme sports. It makes me feel alive.”
“I believe the defining moment was when certain persons, who shall remain nameless, objected to my fuchsia silk striped waistcoat. I loved that waistcoat. I put my foot down, right then and there; I do not mind telling you!" To punctuate his deeply offended feelings, he stamped one silver-and-pearl-decorated high heel firmly. "No one tells me what I can and cannot wear!" He snapped up a lace fan from where it lay on a hall table and fanned himself vigorously with it for emphasis.”
“I've had it happen to me before where it turns out that they never had the money and couldn't have made the movie in the first place. And these are the things you have to look for when trying to read the behavior of the people you sit down with.”
“I'm certainly not thrilled with everything the Eagles did, but there are some things I'm quite proud of.”

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