"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand."

-- Bertrand Russell

#Clever Quotes #Smart Quotes #Stupid Quotes

“Do you remember? When the fights seemed to go on and on, and always ended with us in bed, tearing at each other like maybe that could change everything. In a couple of months you'd be seeing somebody else and I would too; she was no darker than you but she washed her panties in the shower and had hair like a sea of little punos and the first time you saw us, you turned around and boarded a bus I knew you didn't have to take. When my girl said, Who was that? I said, Just some girl.”
“I try to do romantic gestures all the time.”
“For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end.”
“For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women, it is a man; and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city.”
“In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.”
“I actually believe in simplicity as a way of life. My wife and I are considering moving into a yurt!”

Source : Joseph Monninger (2010). “Eternal on the Water”, p.354, Simon and Schuster
“I've found places that are just as beautiful as New England, but this is my home.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get up, to get through, and to get over.”

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