"Tell me about yourself, Miss Russel." I started to give him the obligatory response, first the demurral and then the reluctant flat autobiography, but some slight air of polite inattention in his manner stopped me. Instead, I found myself grinning at him. "Why don't you tell me about myself, Mr. Holmes?"

-- Laurie R. King

#Air Quotes #Giving Quotes #Missing Quotes

“I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.”
“For "full" emotional communication, one person needs to allow his state of mind to be influenced by that of the other.”

Source : Daniel J. Siegel (2015). “The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are”, p.94, Guilford Publications
“I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has happened to us through the kind of people we become.”

Source : Azar Nafisi (2009). “Things I've Been Silent About: Memories”, p.23, Random House
“To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.”

Source : Gertrude Jekyll (1919). “Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden”
“I feel like people who actually know how music works on a technical level need to explain it to the rest of us a little more often.”
“The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.”
“The truth will make you odd.”
“The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.”

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