"I can move objects with my mind..... if I use my hands!"

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Demetri Martin

#Moving Quotes #Hands Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I didn't want to be an actor.”
“Okay, I'm flattered, I appreciate your attempt at making me feel better after the fiasco with the pita rolls, but please ring up this beer I need it more than flattery.”

Source : Amanda Filipacchi (2014). “Love Creeps: A Novel”, p.22, Open Road Media
“In one sense, no act of reparation will be satisfactory for those whose lives were so under-valued both as human beings held in slavery and then as human chattel to satisfy the financial indebtedness of a Catholic institution. Nonetheless, the university must also put into place - as it is attempting to do - a program that both admits the horror and error of its past actions and directs its students, faculty, and administrations to an awareness of the dignity of all people, especially those who even today are often considered less than worthy of respect and dignity.”
“When something irritates me, I don't go home and write; I just don't do that.”
“Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge. And if that knowledge is employed, then it becomes wisdom.”
“In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.”
“To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words but great deeds. To live in faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you.”
“Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.”

Source : Karen Joy Fowler (2005). “The Jane Austen Book Club”, p.163, Penguin

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