"Normally seven minutes of another person's company was enough to give her a headache so she set things up to live as a recluse. She was perfectly content as long as people left her in peace. Unfortunately society was not very smart or understanding."

-- Steig Larsson

#Smart Quotes #Giving Quotes #Long Quotes

“There were times when David Souter thought of Bush v. Gore and wept,”

Source : "Excerpt: Bush v. Gore marks high court's low point" by Jeffrey Toobin, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2007.
“I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty.”
“Nothing is as strong as the heart of a volunteer.”
“I hope and dream the time will come when serious artists will make marvelous pictures that will love and live in life-like manner and be far more interesting and wonderful than pictures you now see on canvas. I think if Michelangelo was alive today he would immediately see the wonders...The artist can make his scenes and characters live instead of stand still on canvas in art museums.”

Source : Winsor McCay (2007*). “Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland”
“I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!”
“Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged.”
“What helps you as an actor when it comes to roles is that deeper understanding of so many different fractions of humanity. Because oftentimes, even in comedy, there is conflict.”

Source : "BYT Interviews: David Koechner". Interview with BYT, brightestyoungthings.com. September 22, 2016.
“In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.”

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