"New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States."

-- Simeon Strunsky

#New York Quotes #Mountain Quotes #Desert Quotes

“To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead -somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man -somewhere these, too, come together.”
“I sometimes lack confidence in public, although I am proud enough inwardly.”
“I'd do pretty much anything to get back on stage. I'd like to develop a new musical. I nearly had a heart attack when I heard that they're developing John Waters' Cry-Baby because that is so amazing and super and wonderful and I wish that I could be involved. But it's not the right time and I understand that. But I hear things like that and I get that little tingle in my stomach.”
“It is very likely that many firms spend more on advertising than, for their own best interests, they should.”

Source : Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.18, Routledge
“The Christian life consists in what God does for us, not what we do for God.”

Source : Marva J. Dawn (2006). “The Sense of the Call: A Sabbath Way of Life for Those Who Serve God, the Church, and the World”, p.91, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“Pure physical sensation, social status, sexual attraction, and feeling like a winner are generally superficial, which is why people hunger for them repeatedly.The only goal worth attaining is complete freedom to be yourself, without illusions and false beliefs.The past and the future exist only in imagination. Everything you did before has no reality. Everything you will do afterward has no reality. Only the thing you are doing now is real.”
“Loss of empathy might well be the most enduring and deep-cutting scar of all, the silent blade of an unseen emey, tearing at our hearts and stealing more than our strength- Drizzt Do'Urden”
“I loved my childhood. They had the coolest toys back then. Star Wars, Transformers, laser-tag gun sets. Toy companies have really gone downhill.”

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