"It needs to be said that sometimes my mom forgets important details when she talks. Like the time she told us she was considering leather (couches, it turns out), or when I was little and she said, "Here's a napkin to put your balls in" (the Atomic Fireballs that I was eating, she meant)."

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Source : Bill Konigsberg (2013). “Openly Straight”, p.93, Scholastic Inc.

Bill Konigsberg

#Mom Quotes #Important Quotes #Napkins Quotes

“The really great gallerists have always been interested in imagery that is not that imagery.”
“If I don't get at least 1 email in any given hour, I begin to think my friends are conspiring against me.”
“Even the most mundane objects are things of wonder, if we stop to look at them, and the fact that we are alive is the biggest wonder of all.”
“My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.”
“Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly.”
“Basically, markets don't like uncertainty.”

Source : Source: www.democracynow.org
“Politicians need a better understanding of global ecology. We need to be freed from our species-specific arrogance. No evidence exists that we are chosen, the unique species for which all the others were made. Nor are we the most important one because we are so numerous, powerful and dangerous.”
“Give God the margin of eternity to justify Himself in, and the more we live and know of our own souls and of spiritual experience generally, the more we shall be convinced that we have to do with one who is good and just.”

Source : Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.354

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