"Where's the superficial? I was, and therefore am, dim, gloomy, a drag, unfashionable, unfanciable, and awkward. This doesn't seem like superficial to me. These aren't flesh wounds. These are life-threatening thrusts into the internal organs."

-- Nick Hornby

#Awkward Quotes #Flesh Quotes #Threatening Quotes

“The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.”
“One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is a movie that I just find flawless. Jack Nicholson... I just saw 'The Shining' again the other day; he's so brilliant. He's such a brilliant actor, just unbelievable.”
“Theres a burgeoning film scene in Romania.”
“I suppose you can never tell right off who might have a piece of Prince Charming deep down inside.”
“I am speaking of the life of a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children; who has undertaken to cherish it and do it no damage, not because he is duty-bound, but because he loves the world and loves his children.”
“The boys that lose our directioners are so stupid, they will never find such beautiful girls in the whole entire world.”
“Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.”
“Fill your affections with the cross of Christ that there may be no room for sin.”

Source : John Owen (1825). “On the nature ... of indwelling sin in believers”, p.199

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