"You couldn't find nobody deader, not if you'd sarched for a week. Why, door nails, and Julius Caesar, and things o' that description, would ha' been lively compared with your poor ma when I see her. Lively! that's what they'd ha' been."

-- Laura E. Richards

#Death Quotes #Doors Quotes #Nails Quotes

“Listen! If stars are lit It means there is someone who needs it, It means someone wants them to be, That someone deems those specks of spit Magnificent!”

Source : Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky, “Listen!”
“I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.”
“My family lives a pretty normal life.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The Founders were not democrats and socialists..., but conservatives who had a healthy distrust of political passions and who devised a complex system designed to frustrate the schemes of social redeemers and others convinced of their own invincible virtue.”

Source : David Horowitz (2016). “The Black Book of the American Left: The Collected Conservative Writings of David Horowitz”, p.154, Encounter Books
“I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.”

Source : Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Ted Toadvine (2007). “The Merleau-Ponty Reader”, p.174, Northwestern University Press
“I'm more focused as a singer and hands-on with music and more exacting, and less trying to furiously fit a thousands thoughts into a four minute song.”
“We're setting up an urban farm for kids on more than 20 acres in New Orleans. We want to make this a world-class educational center for the community.”
“I don't want to control anybody's mind or anybody's heart -- I just want to help free people from the concert of sex as evil instead of a gift from God.”

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