"I always say, 'If you can't give a reason for the banana peel being in the alley, then don't have the comic slide over it.' Do you understand what I mean? First explain how the banana peel got there quickly. And then there's a reason for all the comedy."

-- Elaine Stritch

#Mean Quotes #Giving Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.”

Source : "Call of the wild" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2007.
“Divine love always has met and always will meet every human need.”

Source : Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.587, Jazzybee Verlag
“I learned early on that I'd rather not be taught something somebody else's way, I'd rather do it the most organic way I know. So, whatever I end up with, it's something I did myself. That's just the way I do it.”
“I rebelled by not getting straight A's and not following the path that my elder sister did. She was valedictorian and is very exemplary in her way. I look a lot like her, so I just had to do the opposite. Not that I got bad grades, but I was all about performance and just finding any way that I could to be involved in any kind of production.”
“The tree was so old, and stood there so alone, that his childish heart had been filled with compassion; if no one else on the farm gave it a thought, he would at least do his best to, even though he suspected that his child's words and child's deeds didn't make much difference. It had stood there before he was born, and would be standing there after he was dead, but perhaps, even so, it was pleased that he stroked its bark every time he passed, and sometimes, when he was sure he wasn't observed, even pressed his cheek against it.”
“Do you love me for me?... I don't even love me for me.”
“If you can't quit no matter how hard you try, then you have a chance to succeed.”
“The fossil record contains no trace of these preliminary stages in the development of many-celled organisms.”

Source : Robert Jastrow (1967). “Red Giants and White Dwarfs: The Evolution of Stars, Planets, and Life”

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