"Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. I confess to having yielded to these pressures."

-- Chris Van Allsburg

#Football Quotes #Peer Pressure Quotes #Peers Quotes

“I always hated those fantasy books where, at the end, all the kids had to go home. At the end of a Narnia book, you always got shown the door. Same with The Wizard Of Oz and The Phantom Tollbooth. You get kicked out of your magic land. It's like, "By the way, here's your next surprise: You get to go home!" And the kids are all like, "Yay, we get to go home!" I never bought that. Did anybody buy that?”
“None of us is a smart as all of us.”
“God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.”
“Love wants to enjoy in other ways the human being whom it has enjoyed in bed; it looks forward to having breakfast.”

Source : Henry Fairlie (1979). “The Seven Deadly Sins Today”
“You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.”

Source : Joan Didion (2011). “A Book of Common Prayer”, p.256, Vintage
“Well, if I hadn't have been an actor I would have gone on to play college sports.”
“No one looks stupid when they're having fun.”

Source : "Amy Poehler: The Entertainer". Interview with Sloane Crosley, www.glamour.com. November 2, 2009.
“It means that there's only one love for everyone who exists. And when you meet that love, you know them. You know you were meant to be together, and nothing can keep you apart.”

Source : L.J. Smith (2009). “Night World No. 2: Dark Angel; The Chosen; Soulmate”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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