"I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often."

-- Charles Bukowski

#Sadness Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Sick Quotes

“Every memory I have from when I was a kid involves basketball.”
“Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?”

Source : "Iconoclasts". Documentary, November 16, 2006.
“I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.”

Source : "Taiye Selasi on discovering her pride in her African roots". www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2013.
“Esquire's all about mommy issues now. Breastfeeding, vaccinations, playdate etiquette.”
“Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.”
“No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion.”

Source : James Burgh (2009). “Political Disquisitions”, p.390, Applewood Books
“My greatest crush was Chandler from 'Friends'. And Goran Ivanisevic.”

Source : "Miranda Hart: this much I know" by Emma John, www.theguardian.com. December 22, 2012.
“The Gandhi family has a tradition of being good hosts. When you call upon them, they treat you with a lot of respect.”

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