"I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Arturo Toscanini

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“Confined to common life thy numbers flow, And neither soar too high nor sink too low; There strength and ease in graceful union meet, Though polished, subtle, and though poignant, sweet; Yet powerful to abash the from of crime And crimson error's cheek with sportive rhyme. [Lat., Verba togae sequeris, junctura callidus acri, Ore teres modico, pallentes radere mores Doctus, et ingenuo culpam defigere ludo.]”
“I don't want to be awkward, but I've thought about this a lot, and all I want to say is in the statement. Me going out with Gabby from the Cheeky Girls is not a secret.”
“I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence.”
“State what you actually see in someone's work first: objects/space/color/directional flow - then content. Interpret.”
“"Weenie" was definitely a word we used at Yale back then. But I'm not sure you were one, Larry [Kramer]. Also, you were going by a different name.”
“George Jones and I happen to share the same birthday. The first and only time I met him (which I believe was at the Opry if my memory serves me), I told him that. His response, 'You must be trouble.' Takes one to know one, I am so proud to say. George, his music and his mischievous trouble, will all be missed. He is a country legend.”
“Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't.”
“It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.”

Source : Hans Urs von Balthasar (1991). “Unless You Become Like this Child”, p.57, Ignatius Press

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