"Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life."

-- Bill Moyers

#Oxygen Quotes #Hyperbole Quotes #Johnson Quotes

“Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many districts not yet occupied by man, land animals and forests now abound where the anchor once sank into the oozy bottom.”

Source : Sir Charles Lyell, Gérard Paul Deshayes (1830). “Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes Now in Operation”, p.255
“There are five dark matters and five lamps. Love of this world is darkness, and the fear of Allaah is its lamp. Sin is darkness, and its lamp is repentance. The grave is darkness, and its lamp is 'none has the right to be worshipped but Allaah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allaah.' The hereafter is darkness, and its lamp is the good deed. The Siraat is darkness, and its lamp is certainty of faith.”
“It's funny: I put money into short films, and I put really good actors in it, and I write some stuff that's really funny, and I'll get, like, a million views. But to the right of me, there will be a video of a kitten that falls into a toilet bowl, and it's three seconds long, and it will get 25 million views.”
“That sounds really simplistic, but if I'm in an enclosed space, or my apartment, and I live very close to a park - there's something about being outside and being near things that are green.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Most of the people I know in comedy are not weird or messed up.”

Source : "The Hot Seat: Daily Show contributor Kristen Schaal". Interview with Sarah Theeboom, www.timeout.com. June 12, 2012.
“One of the reasons why Resident Evil is a very successful video game franchise, much more so than a lot of others that have fallen by the wayside, is that they have constantly evolved.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“So what do I wish for? Something I'm not sure I want? Someone I'm not sure I need? Or someone I know I can't have?”

Source : Stephanie Perkins (2013). “Anna and the French Kiss”, p.56, Usborne Publishing Ltd
“Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.”

Source : James Huneker (1913). “The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments”

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