"You know, when you have a father who's pretty well known but you don't see him, the last thing you want to do is start talking about him all the time to people."

-- Norah Jones

#Father Quotes #Talking Quotes #People Quotes

“I had a very Italian house - the "plastic furniture you couldn't sit on" house. Did anybody have the museum house? For a kid it's traumatic. Towels you can never touch. China no one's ever gonna use. Everything is for a special occasion that never happens. My mother was waiting for the Pope to show up for dinner. Or Sinatra. Or Chachi.”
“I think California is playing a game of brinkmanship that's very dangerous. Why is it 50 or 60 years ago we had the capacity to lay down the physical, psychological, cultural, public infrastructure of a global mega-state, and today we are on the verge of being Honduras?”

Source : Source: www.chicagotribune.com
“Most magicians are nothing more than laymen with rabbits on their business cards”
“Nothing happens to man without the permission of God ...”
“Human beings are worthy of the highest respect but not all opinions and beliefs are worthy of respect and tolerance. There are some who believe in fascism, white supremacy, the inferiority of women. Must those beliefs be respected? There is a big difference between the two.”

Source : "One woman's war" by Nick Cohen, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2005.
“From all wise men, O Lord, protect us.”
“The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.”
“I have indeed - praise be to God - attained my desire in this world, which was to travel through the earth, and i have attained in this respect what no other person has attained to my knowledge.”

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