"It was true that the city could still throw shadows filled with mystifying figures from its past, whose grip on the present could be felt on certain strange days, when the streets were dark with rain and harmful ideas."

-- Christopher Fowler

#Rain Quotes #Dark Quotes #Past Quotes

“To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.”
“If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.”

Source : "Noted from the field". "InfoWorld Magazine", Volume 11, Number 10, March 6, 1989.
“I was listening to all those lyrics and trying to take in everything that was happening. I was completely excited. It was one of the greatest times that I had listening to music.”
“My idea of good poetry is any dog doing anything.”
“I don't want to play with marbles, when God told me to move mountains!”
“The more you are positive and say, I want to have a good life, the more you build that reality for yourself by creating the life that you want.”

Source : "Just My Luck - Chris Pine interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.
“We live in a beauty-obsessed age and success sometimes appears to hinge solely on the presentation of an image that is acceptable to the press.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history â€“ true or feignedâ€“ with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.”

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