"The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives."

-- Calvin Trillin

#Life Quotes #Book Quotes #Average Quotes

“The news should have terrified her, but it was difficult to be frightened of anything when she was sitting so close to Rom. 'I thought we had convinced him that I was leading a blameless life?' 'We had, till you burst out of that damnable cake.”
“It's easy to clean up when you got money.”

Source : "Pretty Woman". m.imdb.com. 1990.
“The outcome is not up to you. The outlook is.”
“placid, adj. Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still.”
“While it can be aggressive playing rugby, the aggression doesn't leave the rugby pitch. A Real Man doesn't need to use violence or be abusive to others, especially towards his partner and family. I am proud to support the Women's Aid Real Man campaign.”
“A GREAT discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in any problem.”
“We are not just our behavior. We are the person managing our behavior.”
“I have found it is surprisingly difficult to remain sad when a cat is doing its level best to sandpaper one's cheeks.”

Source : R. L. LaFevers (2011). “Theodosia and the Last Pharaoh”, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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