"It's like someone jammed an electric light bulb in your face, and busted it. I thought half my head was blowed off...When he knocked me down I could have stayed there for three weeks."

-- James J. Braddock

#Light Quotes #Boxing Quotes #Half Quotes

“Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think youâ€™re at the end of the book, and itâ€™s only the end of a chapter.”
“Don't ruin a good today by thinking of a bad yesterday, Let it go!”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 19, 2016
“The swimming community is really conservative. I don't know why, because we're in no clothing whatsoever.”
“No matter if the science is all phoney, there are collateral environmental benefits.... climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.”
“We have to be the people who stand up and say look, vigilance is good and prudence is good. But a kind of irrational fear that leads itself to demagogic rhetoric is something that we have to say no - no, we're not going to go there.”

Source : "Round-Table On Refugees: How People Of Faith Are Navigating The Crisis". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 21, 2015.
“A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.”
“I like playing the stuff where I donÂ´t know what IÂ´m gonna play. Like the end of Fake Plastic Trees or the end of Paranoid Android - stuff where I can do anything and no one notices or cares.”
“Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them." shall we have it.”

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