"The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph."

-- Mercy Otis Warren

#Air Quotes #Arms Quotes #Canada Quotes

“It's just seems life without music would be death.”
“I was an apprentice television engineer when I decided to pack it up and go full-time, much to my father's disgust. But I'm still interested and I like messing about with TV. I can't deny it ... TV engineering was the job I'd wanted at the time, and I got what I wanted. But in the long-term it would have been second best to being a musician.”
“I don't understand why or how we can bully each other.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“You'll wake up on Easter morning, And you'll know that he was there, When you find those choc'late bunnies, That he's hiding ev'rywhere.”
“It is hard to go on living without some hope of encountering the extraordinary.”
“Life is so extraordinary. Wonderful surprises are just around the most unexpected corners.”

Source : Rosamunde Pilcher (2011). “Winter Solstice”, p.275, Macmillan
“I'm not somebody that has an encyclopedic knowledge of ballads and could sit around a fire and sing songs for three hours. I basically only know the songs that I've taken on and reworked and recorded.”
“Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.”

Source : C.P. Snow (2011). “A Coat Of Varnish”, p.43, House of Stratus

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