"He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he struggled for a moment, after which all was over. I shall never forget the comic look of despair he cast upon the other five over-occupied shells. I asked him how he felt. 'Profoundly grateful,' he said, 'as if I had swallowed a small baby.'"

-- William Makepeace Thackeray

#Baby Quotes #Grateful Quotes #Grace Quotes

“I lived in Wisconsin for a while, so I keep my eyes on the Packers. I grew up in San Diego, so there's the Chargers, but outside of that, I'm really kind of lame because I don't have a specific team I pull for.”
“Cunning is a short blanket--if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet.”
“We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.”

Source : Randolph Silliman Bourne (1913). “Youth and Life”
“In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.”
“I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to.”
“I think that the board is a lot more intuitive than people assume. You get on it and all you have to do is put one foot on the tail and one foot on the nose and rock it up and down and that will get you into the tricks or wheelies or manuals. It's not about the balance so much as it is about the timing.”

Source : Source: espn.go.com
“If you're an adult and still think material wealth leads to happiness, might I suggest not being a moron.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Feb 21, 2012
“I would like to, especially in film, play against type and do some heavier stuff. I'm intrigued by projects that deal with problematic people and things.”

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