"Weâ€™d torn open our chests and shown our cowardly hearts, and you can never stay friends after something like that"

--

Denis Johnson

#Heart Quotes #Torn Quotes

“I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.”
“If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports.”
“You can tell a person, not by what they say they are gratitude for, but how they respect what they claim to be grateful for.”
“Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.”

Source : Michael Shermer (2011). “The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths”, p.63, Macmillan
“I have an idea I want to test, for combining old peoples homes and orphanages. Old people are lonely without children, children are lonely without parents. Why not bring them together?”
“Women ... have long been discouraged from the awareness and forthright expression of anger. Sugar and spice are the ingredients from which we are made. We are the nurturers, the soothers, the peacemakers, and the steadiers of rocked boats.”
“Long before I was a star, I was a fan.”

Source : Bill Anderson (1989). “Whisperin' Bill: An Autobiography”
“I stayed in submission to my husband, and he allowed me to do anything I wanted to. I felt like I was lucky to have that kind of romance.”

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