"You don't smoke do you?" "No, why?" "They're afraid of fire." "Great, we're going to be eaten alive because neither of us smokes." I almost laughed. He sounded so thoroughly disgustedâ€¦"

-- Laurell K. Hamilton

#Fire Quotes #Alive Quotes #Disgusted Quotes

“From 1971 onwards, the Memorial Day holiday was officially observed on the last Monday in May and became the unofficial start of the summer, with barbecues, blockbuster movie openings and mattress sales.”
“The purpose of pure science is to observe phenomena and to trace their laws; the purpose of art is to produce, modify, or destroy. Strictly speaking there is no such thing as applied science, for, the moment the attempt is made to apply, science passes into the realm of art.”

Source : Joseph William Mellor (1946). “A Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry”
“Failure to me became not trying versus not succeeding”
“So while in men's magazines success is a power tool to get sex and love, and therefore the look of success is crucial, in women's magazines love and sex are power tools to get success and therefore both the look of love and the sexual tease/promise are crucial.”
“Don't cook that chicken - it still has feathers.”

Source : "A Gulag Mouse". Book by Arthur M. Jolly, 2010.
“Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them.”
“I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own”
“To-day the whole Christian world prostrates itself in adoration around the crib of Bethlehem and rehearses in accents of love a history which precedes all time and will endure throughout eternity. As if by an instinct of our higher, spiritual nature, there well up from the depths of our hearts, emotions which challenge the power of human expression. We seem to be lifted out of the sphere of natural endeavor to put on a new life and to stretch forward in desire to a blessedness which, though not palpable, is eminently real.”

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