"A long project is like a secret houseguest, hidden in your study, waiting to be fed and visited."

-- John Hollander

#Long Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Secret Quotes

“You know, when I'm looking at these '08 yachts that are for sale, I think "I could have just walked in with a briefcase of cash and put it on the table and walked out with a yacht."”
“The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968.”

Source : "Edward Snowden’s Real Impact" by Jeffrey Toobin, www.newyorker.com. August 19, 2013.
“Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.”
“There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.”

Source : Octave Mirbeau (1997). “Torture Garden”, Dedalus Limited
“He tasted like sin made into wine: dark, heady, and impossible to resist.”
“Choose people who lift you up.”
“I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.”
“Taking away the peace of a people, committing every act of violence, or consenting to such acts, especially when directed against the weakest and defenseless, is a profoundly grave sin against God.”

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