"The snag in being married to a person who knows more or less everything is that one gets hopelessly lazy. ... I never look things up in books because all I need to do is ask him, and when he gives me the answers I don't properly commit them to memory because I know if I forget all I have to do is to ask him again. It is rather like keeping one's brain in a suitcase."

-- Alice Thomas Ellis

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“The Texas-OU game is a big revenue bear. And because it's played at a neutral site, you don't have as many student body going as you would if it was home-and-home. These are full-price tickets.”
“Books are always good company if you have the right sort.”
“I report when science clashes with the Bible story and when it reinforces it. Then I let the readers chew on it. As followers of Jesus and students of the Bible, what we're looking for is the truth. We find it by grappling with the facts. And when the truth remains a mystery that our facts can't solve, we live with it. We hold loosely to our waffling knowledge and tightly to Jesus.”
“A guy wants a classy girl who is smart and has goals - someone that he wouldn't be afraid to bring home to his parents.”

Source : "Exclusive Victoria Justice Prom Pics!". www.seventeen.com. December 20, 2010.
“There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words have been heard.”
“You're following your track, the story, your only plan, your map for the audience, and all the other stuff is, like, the fun stuff: the costumes, the locations, the set-dressing and the actors. They can all be variable as you like if you stick - however roughly - to the path.”

Source : "Gus van Sant: the last king of the underground". Interview with John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2011.
“My abortion was so long ago I didn't think I needed help. I hoped God had forgiven me but I hadn't realized I didn't forgive myself. After attending this safe, nurturing group I know that I am forgiven and set free.”
“I grew up listening to Nirvana, and then went through some bad 90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders.”

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