"Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark."

--

Source : Daddy,We Hardly Knew You (1989)

Germaine Greer

#Dark Quotes #Lakes Quotes #Light Quotes

“I have walked this south stream when to believe in spring was an act of faith. It was spitting snow and blowing, and within two days of being May ... But as if to assert the triumph of climate over weather, one ancient willow managed a few gray ***** willows, soft and barely visible against the snow-blurred gray background.”

Source : Ann Zwinger (1970). “Beyond the Aspen Grove”, p.92, Big Earth Publishing
“One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.”
“The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.”
“I'm usually the guy who says, 'Bruce Willis and Denzel Washington in the Siege'!”
“While Mitt Romney was at Bain Capital, almost one out of every four companies they were involved with went bankrupt or went out of business.”
“My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.”

Source : "C. Thomas Howell on The Outsiders, blackface, and how Marlboros got him cast in E.T". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. February 13, 2013.
“Conservatives are more religious than liberals--although there is no evidence that they're nicer people because of it.”
“Iran is not a make-believe country. It is a real country populated by some 75 million people - real people; including, I daresay, a majority who are philosophically and by education inclined toward the modern, secular world, and particularly American values.”

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