"A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future."

-- Joseph Addison

#Ruins Quotes #Mood Quotes #Tense Quotes

“My rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don't, and vice versa.”
“Flat or round, there has always been hate in the world.”

Source : Tanith Lee (1981). “Tales from the Flat Earth: The Lords of Darkness Night's Master Death's Master Delusion's Master”
“There's something about a catharsis that is very important.”
“I just like to keep my money in the bank; I'm not a big risk-taker. I don't know anything about the stock market... I stay away from things I don't know anything about.”
“As far as I'm concerned, however, it is clear that the concept of premium will be increasingly defined through sustainability in the future.”
“It's great when you find somebody you're compatible with, but I'm really into separate bedrooms. You live your life and I live mine.”
“And all Halloween candy pales next to candy corn, if only because candy corn used to appear, like the Great Pumpkin, solely on Halloween.”
“The camera machine cannot evade the objects which are in front of it. When the photographer selects this movement, the light, the objects, he must be true to them. If he includes in his space a strip of grass, it must be felt as the living differentiated thing it is and so recorded. It must take its proper but no less important place as a shape and a texture in relationship to the mountain tree or what not, which are included.”

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