"A book is not completed till it's read."

-- Salman Rushdie

“My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.”

Source : FaceBook post by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts from Sep 17, 2013
“First Lady Michelle Obama has posted an exercise video of her beating up a punching bag. But don't worry, Vice President Biden is going to be OK.”
“Women in Africa, generally a lot needs to be done for women. Women are not being educated, not only in Angola but my trip to Nigeria, one point I would make over and over again was that women need to be educated too.”

Source : MSNBC.com Live Chat, www.nbcnews.com. 2013.
“Like us as Black", beg the chess pieces," and you will anyway like us as White”
“It's a unique situation as well because England is a small country, so it makes it easy for the fans to travel. If we play down in London, they get buses and we'll get three or four thousand fans come down. They'll all sit in the same area and show their support for the team.”
“If a young dog strays up the aisle during church no one says anything, no one does anything, but, none the less, he soon becomes aware that something is wrong. Even so, as the distance between myself and the hearthrug diminished, did I become aware that something was very wrong indeed.”

Source : Ethel Smyth (1987). “The memoirs of Ethel Smyth”, Viking Pr
“Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.”

Source : Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.12
“I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine.”

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