"[Janco] paused. His eyes held a distant gleam as if seeing into his past. 'My first practice was a shock. I was a cocky smart aleck--' [Opal] 'Was?' [J] 'Be quiet. I'm telling a story here."

-- Maria V. Snyder

#Smart Quotes #Eye Quotes #Cocky Quotes

“Sarah Palin is now the guy who hangs out in the high school parking lot, showing off his car, five years after he graduated.”
“As Nature is always careless and indifferent Who sees, who steps, means nothing and this is pretty.”
“The Government should take a firm, bold line. This delay - this uncertainty, by which, abroad, we are losing our prestige and our position, while Russia is advancing and will be before Constantinople in no time! Then the Government will be fearfully blamed and the Queen so humiliated that she thinks she would abdicate at once.”
“The fulfillment of every desire only reveals its inadequacy.”
“I know. You know I know. I know you know I know. We know Henry knows and Henry knows we know it. We're a knowledgeable family.”

Source : "Fictional character: Geoffrey". "The Lion in Winter", www.imdb.com. 2003.
“I need someone who believes that the sun will rise again but who does not fear my darkness. Someone who can point out the rocks in my way without making me a child by carrying me. Someone who can stand in thunder and watch the lightning and believe in a rainbow.”
“One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory.”

Source : Aldo Rossi, Peter Eisenman (1982). “Architettura Della Città”, p.130, MIT Press
“Logos are a graphic extension of the internal realities of a company.”

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