"I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed,"

-- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

#Sleep Quotes #Hardship Quotes #Bed Quotes

“A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow.”
“The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.”
“Every great cause was initiated by someone whose heart was broken.”
“What are the precise characteristics of an epigram it is not easy to define. It differs from a joke, in the fact that the wit of the latter dies in the words, and cannot therefore be conveyed in another language; while an epigram is a wit of ideas, and hence, is translatable. Like aphorisms, songs and sonnets, it is occupied with some single point, small and manageable; but whilst a song conveys a sentiment, a sonnet a poetical, and an aphorism a moral reflection, an epigram expresses a contrast.”
“It is now the fall of my second year in Paris. I was sent here for a reason I have not yet been able to fathom. I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. A year ago, six months ago, i thought I was an artist. I no longer think about it. I am. There are no more books to be written, thank God.”
“I will live for love and the rest will take care of itself”

Source : Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.5, Simon and Schuster
“The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.”
“Every time I was driving on the L.A. freeway in a small car, it was very unnerving for me. One time I rented an SUV, and it just changed my whole perspective of driving, and I was converted to SUVs from that day on.”

Source : "The fruit of Lauren Lee Smith's labour". Interview with Petrina Gentile, www.theglobeandmail.com. April 13, 2011.

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