"She hissed, right there behind my ear, and I had the horrible idea she was spitting maggots into my hair. Why maggots were a problem when I was about to be dead, I didnâ€™t know, but the idea completely grossed me out. â€œIn the womb I heard you die, for no one lives when a banshee cries.â€ I wasnâ€™t just going to die. I was going to be rhymed to death. That simply wasnâ€™t fair."

-- C.E. Murphy

#Hair Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Ears Quotes

“That's what this country needs -- more books!”
“I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time.”

Source : Letter to a patron, in John Hayes 'Thomas Gainsborough' (1980) p. 14
“And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it.”
“What makes something simple or complex? It's not the number of dials or controls or how many features it has: It is whether the person using the device has a good conceptual model of how it operates.”
“By about a week before the big day, you will have received less than half of your invitation response cards. Panic sets in when it occurs to you that everyone invited will actually show up. You couldn't have made it easier for your guests. You have included a card that had boxes for 'will attend' or 'will not attend.' You included a pre-addressed, stamped envelope. How inconvenient could it be for them simply to check it off and drop it in in a mailbox? Very inconvenient. You, evil bride-to-be, are confronting two basic human fears. A terror of correspondence and the dread of decision-making.”

Source : Mimi Pond (1993). “A Groom of One's Own: And Other Bridal Accessories”, Plume Books
“[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.”

Source : Rex Stout (2010). “Fer-de-Lance”, p.3, Crimeline
“I'm going to take the legend of Hulk Hogan and kill it!”
“When we're doing an action game, we make the second level first. We begin making level 1 once everything else is completed.”

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