"Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books."

-- Oprah Winfrey

#Reading Quotes #Book Quotes #Shoes Quotes

“I've been fortunate to live a very full professional life. Most of it has happened through God's graciousness and not from something I've imagined.”
“There is an Indian story -- at least I heard it as an Indian story -- about an Englishman who, having been told that the world rested on a platform which rested on the back of an elephant which rested in turn on the back of a turtle, asked (perhaps he was an ethnographer; it is the way they behave), what did the turtle rest on? Another turtle. And that turtle? 'Ah, Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down”

Source : René Girard, Clifford Geertz, Geoffrey H. Hartman, Stanford University. Committee on Modern Thought and Literature (1973*). “Myth and ritual in Shakespeare: A midsummer night's dream”
“I've seen Keith fall asleep at business meetings about millions of dollars for him-because of heroin, just nod out and then wake up and answer a question.”

Source : "The Rolling Stones: Notes from the Babylon Bar". Interview with Chris Heath, www.rollingstone.com. December 23, 1997.
“The only thing I can cheer for in Philadelphia is the national anthem.”
“I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Relax into the present moment.”
“Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.”
“I would do it [study UFOs], but before agreeing to do it, we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance in the L.A. case, the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination.”

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