"However long it stays in the river the tree-trunk will never turn into a crocodile."

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Source : Ousmane Sembène (1983). “Xala”, Lawrence Hill Books

Ousmane Sembene

#Rivers Quotes #Long Quotes #Tree Quotes

“From the dawn of exact knowledge to the present day, observation, experiment, and speculation have gone hand in hand; and, whenever science has halted or strayed from the right path, it has been, either because its votaries have been content with mere unverified or unverifiable speculation (and this is the commonest case, because observation and experiment are hard work, while speculation is amusing); or it has been, because the accumulation of details of observation has for a time excluded speculation.”
“I definitely want to design clothes at one point.”
“Knowledge was like candy: you never turned it down, especially if you didn't have to work too hard to get it.”

Source : Robert Liparulo (2009). “House of Dark Shadows”, p.110, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.”
“Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.”

Source : Tracy Letts (2008). “August: Osage County (TCG Edition)”, p.78, Theatre Communications Group
“Gay guys like a certain kind of woman. They like a flamboyant woman that's broken. They like a balls-to-the-wall woman, motherly but not; sexual but not. Gay guys are like this: they either love you or they don't even know you're on the planet. Once you have them, you have them.”
“People would be surprised if they knew how shitty my recording situation has been over the years. It took a lot of work to make the music sound ok. Having space where you can't be heard is more important than not being able to hear. If you can't be heard you feel more free when you work.”
“Pale in her fading bowers the Summer stands,Like a new Niobe with claspÃ¨d hands,Silent above the flowers, her children lost,Slain by the arrows of the early Frost.”

Source : "Ode". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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