"If some confectioners were willing To let the shape announce the filling, We'd encounter fewer assorted chocs, Bitten into and returned to the box."

-- Ogden Nash

#Chocolate Quotes #Shapes Quotes #Encounters Quotes

“There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.”

Source : Frank Chodorov (1947). “Taxation is Robbery ...”
“There's no regimen. There's no personal trainer. I love to go hiking because it's an experience. If I need to gain stamina for a tour, I will run every single night on the treadmill, but I don't necessarily like being at the gym.”
“As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.”

Source : Interview with Elliott Sharp, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2011.
“At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.”
“At dinner time he would sit in a corner, concentrating; and suddenly they would say, 'Time to feed the cat,' as if it were their idea.”

Source : Lilian Jackson Braun (1988). “The Cat Who Had 14 Tales”, p.2, Penguin
“Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius.”
“We Germans are so good at penalties because we have had to rebuild our country twice.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.”

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