"My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style."

-- Rick Moody

#Style Quotes #Contention Quotes

“Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.”

Source : "Anything but a kept woman" by Neasa MacErlean, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2001.
“One of the servants had reported that Daisy had been sneaking around the house at night, deliberately tripping all the traps to keep the mice from being killed. â€œIs this true, daughter?â€ Thomas Bowman had rumbled, his gaze filled with ire as he stared at Daisy. â€œIt could be,â€ she had allowed. â€œBut there is another explanation.â€ â€œAnd what is that?â€ Bowman had asked sourly. Her tone turned congratulatory. â€œI think we are hosting the most intelligent mice in New York!”
“Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they donâ€™t believe in, we quickly discover that I donâ€™t believe in that god, either.”

Source : Rob Bell (2011). “Love Wins: At the Heart of Life’s Big Questions”, p.8, HarperCollins UK
“To the extent that movies get released, they are generally not big box-office generators. Hollywood is clearly focusing on their holiday releases coming up and those will either make or break the year.”
“There were epochs in the history of humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes, the epic, the oracles. Sentences inscribed on the walls of the crypts; examples in the portals of the temples. But in those times the writer was not an individual alone; he was the people.”
“Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.”
“I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.”
“Business must be a force for good in the world.”

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