"By insisting on having your bottle pointing to the north when the cork is being drawn, and calling the waiter Max, you may induce an impression on your guests which hours of laboured boasting might be powerless to achieve. For this purpose, however, the guests must be chosen as carefully as the wine."

-- Hector Hugh Munro

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“I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them.”

Source : "Richard Dawson, beloved host of Family Feud, dies at 79" by the Associated Press, www.theguardian.com. JUne 3, 2012.
“Advice from friends is like the weather. Some of it is good; some of it is bad.”
“In 1815, M. Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D-----. He was a man of seventy-five, and had occupied the bishopric of D----- since 1806. Although it in no manner concerns, even in the remotest degree, what we have to relate, it may not be useless, were it only for the sake of exactness in all things, to notice here the reports and gossip which had arisen on his account from the time of his arrival in the diocese.”
“Whence proceeds this weight we lay On what detracting people say? Their utmost malice cannot make Your head, or tooth, or finger ache; Nor spoil your shapes, distort your face, Or put one feature out of place.”
“John Kerry tried to work with the Russians on Syria, and the man was honorable, because he was trying to do the right thing, and frankly, playing a very weak hand, a hand that was weak not because of him, okay. He did the best he could, but I will say this to his enormous credit: he never offered a dirty deal. You can have Ukraine if you only help us out on Syria. Never - he never did that.”

Source : Source: www.politico.com
“Only those are called liberal or free which are concerned with knowledge; those which are concerned with utilitarian ends... are called servile...The question is... can man develop to the full as a functionary and a worker and nothing else; can a full human existence be contained within an exclusively workaday existence? Stated differently and translated back into our terms: is there such a thing as a liberal art?”
“I can only hope he's an Aries and not a Scorpio.”
“I just want to make whatever is exciting.”

Source : "Spike Jonze and Max Records Interview WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. October 4, 2009.

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