"Fifteen birds in five firtrees, their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze! But, funny little birds, they had no wings! O what shall we do with the funny little things? Roast 'em alive, or stew them in a pot; fry them, boil them and eat them hot?"

-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#Wings Quotes #Bird Quotes #Littles Quotes

“To simply say that black people made allegations that substantiated an unfair and selective prosecution where you had more than half of the counts thrown out, where you had 27 counts where it took the jury less than four hours to find them not guilty - that speaks to fact that here we have three civil-rights activists, acquitted. What we have here is a prosecution that was baseless, a prosecution that chilled African Americans right to vote.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they're either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live.”

Source : Frank Bruni (2009). “Born Round: A Story of Family, Food and a Ferocious Appetite”, p.166, Penguin
“If I go to a concert or sporting event I usually go in a VIP entrance. And leave the same way.”
“Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.”
“I don't want to sell myself short. You hurt your spouse, not so much by the infidelity, but by the negative feelings about yourself that you bring home.”
“You only cry for help if you believe there is help to cry for.”
“Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.”

Source : Debate with Howard Dean at Pacific University, February 17, 2005.
“I would tell anyone, pick the person you love the most, the musician, the actor, public figure, whatever, and watch a bunch of their interviews and find ones where they talk about all the times they've failed, all the times they weren't good enough, and watch those on the regular. It's a very unique type of inspiration. It's almost like spiritual jumper cables for your inner drive.”

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