"Sure, losing an election hurts, but I've experienced worse. And at an age when every day is precious, brooding over what might have been is self-defeating. In conceding the 1996 election, I remarked that "tomorrow will be the first time in my life I don't have anything to do." I was wrong. Seventy-two hours after conceding the election, I was swapping wisecracks with David Letterman on his late-night show."

-- Bob Dole

#Hurt Quotes #Night Quotes #Self Quotes

“You'll never see me in the red leather. I don't have the chin for it.”
“Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.”

Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.93, Atlantic Books Ltd
“People are giving birth underwater now. They say it's less traumatic for the baby because it's under water. But it's certainly more traumatic for the other people in the pool.”
“What is is and what isn't ain't.”
“I think [Theosophical and Masonic books] wasn't that I was inspired so much. I was corroborated by them.”
“People never explain to you exactly what they think and feel and how their thoughts and feelings work, do they? They don't have time. Or the right words. But that's what books do. It's as though your daily life is a film in the cinema. It can be fun, looking at those pictures. But if you want to know what lies behind the flat screen you have to read a book. That explains it all.”

Source : FaceBook post by Sebastian Faulks from Apr 24, 2013
“I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit.”
“I think that power comes in numbers, and we're in an industry where the actors need to have a bigger voice.”

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