"I was learning the importance of names - having them, making them - but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace."

-- Josephine Baker

#Yawning Quotes #Names Quotes #Recognition Quotes

“All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is taken fromus without our consent. The babes we bear in anguish and carry in our arms are not ours.”

Source : Speech as president of a national convention of the Woman's National Loyal League, May 14, 1863.
“It is only when memory is filtered through imagination that the films we make will have real depth.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The best leaders are the ones who show their true colors not during the banner years but during times of struggle.”
“There has never been a better raconteur than Jesus of Nazareth.”
“We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.”
“A new poll shows that Americans now believe that Bill Clinton is more honest than President Bush. At least when Clinton screwed the nation, he did it one person at a time.”
“The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen.”

Source : H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “The Classic Horror Stories”, p.111, OUP Oxford
“This would have been less annoying had it been untrue.”

Source : Robert Charles Wilson (2004). “Blind Lake”, p.222, Macmillan

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