"But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!"

-- Bram Stoker

#Night Quotes #Flames Quotes #Feet Quotes

“I have two children. I have a daughter 29, and a daughter four. They are 25 years apart, so you speak about generations and I must tell you, I have a philosophy and that is every 25 years I'm going to sire another child.”
“A dolphin's smile is the greatest deception. It creates the illusion that they're always happy.”
“There was a time when my taste in music was mainstream, for example - people like Jimi Hendrix - who I really based a lot of my inspiration on, was the most popular entertainer of his day. He was really number one. And bands like Led Zeppelin, The Beatles are really number one bands. But those days are very much done. I can't say that if I listen to the number one artist now that I get excited.”

Source : Source: www.indieberlin.de
“[Buckminster] Fuller's idea of progress is a very 1950s organization man out of the military sort of idea of progress. So as a result, you have something like: we've got bad weather in New York City; let's put a dome over it. And so I don't want to put a dome over Manhattan and I hope that nobody who ends up reading the book wants to do so as a result.”
“It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.”
“The Union, which can alone insure internal peace, and external security to each State, Must and Shall be Preserved, cost what it may in time, treasure, and blood.”
“My personal taxes are 53% of my taxable income. That's 36% on the federal level and 17% for state and local.”
“Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain, th' way I see it. For too many years, I ate fancy, I dressed fancy, I talked fancy. A while back, I decided to start talkin' th' way I was raised t' talk, and for th' first time in forty years, I can understand what I'm sayin'.”

Source : Jan Karon (2011). “Jan Karons Mitford Years: The First Five Novels”, p.224, Penguin

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