"Grandma, how old is she?" "Oh I don't know." Grandma said. "You'd have to cut off her head and count the rings in her neck."

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Source : Richard Peck (2000). “A Year Down Yonder”

Richard Peck

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“Observe, don't imitate.”

Source : George H. Scithers, Darrell Schweitzer, Isaac Asimov, John M. Ford (1981). “On Writing Science Fiction: The Editors Strike Back”, p.13, Wildside Press LLC
“I guess you will have to go to jail. If that is the result of not understanding the Income Tax Law, I will meet you there. We shall have a merry, merry time, for all our friends will be there. It will be an intellectual center, for no one understands the Income Tax Law except persons who have not sufficient intelligence to understand the questions that arise under it.”
“I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.”
“I've always been pretty patient so I usually don't mind waiting!”

Source : Source: www.seventeen.com
“I don't look at women as groupies. To me, a groupie is a stalker. If you're a fan, then you're a fan. But I can look at a woman and become a fan of hers instantly. I'll tell a woman, "Look, I don't want your phone number. Just give me your autograph. Can I take a picture with you?"”

Source : "Ty Me Up, Ty Me Down". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. June 20, 2007.
“Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible.”
“Some people in the utility industry have called it 'circling the drain'”
“Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.”

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