"You must be Warden Ramirez." This is the part where I got nervous. Ramirez loved women. Ramirez never shut up about women. Well, he never shut up about anything in general, but he'd go on and on about various conquests and feats of sexual athleticism andâ€” "A virgin?" Lara blurted. Lara blurted. She turned her head to me, grey eyes several shades paler than they had been, and very wide. "Really, Harry, I'm not sure what to say. Is he a present?"

-- Jim Butcher

#Eye Quotes #Shade Quotes #Athleticism Quotes

“Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan, and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age, I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure, more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.”
“Branding is the art of becoming knowable, likable and trustable.”
“Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that's what's really important.”

Source : "Jake Gyllenhaal: 'End of Watch changed my life'". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2012.
“The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they've got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.”
“I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars.”
“Music always brings great things and makes me meet amazing people. It's amazing.”
“Iâ€™m not here to be good. Iâ€™m here to be great,”
“The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.”

Source : Jackson Pollock, Gagosian Gallery (1990). “Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990”

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