"It was the first smile of my life. Of course, that is a ridiculous thing to say; I had been smiled at often, the big man had smiled at me not a minute since. And yet I say: it was the first smile, because it was the first that ever went straight into me like a needle too thin to be seen."

-- Carol Birch

#Smile Quotes #Men Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“As an artist, it's been clear that the price of art has nothing to do with you, it has to do with an idea of what the market will tolerate.”
“...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.”
“The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.”

Source : Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub
“I don't want to become a diabetic.”
“When the Founders thought of democracy, they saw democracy in the political sphere - a sphere strictly limited by the Constitution's well-defined and enumerated powers given the federal government. Substituting democratic decision making for what should be private decision making is nothing less than tyranny dressed up.”
“Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world.”
“America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.”
“Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above the surface, yet I'm already under and living within the ocean.”

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