"Nobody had ever told me that anything could be like this."

-- Robert Penn Warren

“While we read a novel, we are insaneâ€”bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.”
“I want a Sunday kind of love A love to last past Saturday night And Iâ€™d like to know itâ€™s more than love at first sight”

Source : Song: A Sunday Kind of Love, Album: At Last!
“I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. There is only one way to go in life and that is forward.”
“Moms, let's pledge to build each other up instead of tearing each other down.”
“I do not believe profanity has anything to do with Christianity, thank you.”

Source : Dee Snider (2012). “Shut Up and Give Me the Mic”, p.345, Simon and Schuster
“I felt suddenly very young - or perhaps I felt my age.”
“I not going to focus on what I have done in the past what I stand for, what I articulate to the American people. The American people will judge me on what I am saying and what I have done in the last 12 years in the Congress.”
“What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled couple; not the satisfaction of love, but its passion. And passion means suffering.”

Source : Denis de Rougemont (1983). “Love in the Western World”, p.15, Princeton University Press

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