"...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents."

-- Jhumpa Lahiri

#Fifty Quotes #Pants Quotes #Pairs Quotes

“I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.”
“All over France, in every city there stand cathedrals like this one, triumphant monuments of the past. They tower over the homes of our people like mighty guardians, keeping alive the invincible faith of the Christian. Every arch, every column, every statue is a carved leaf out of our history, a book in stone, glorifying the spirit of France.”
“The old shepherd had died, or got drunk, or got rats, or got the sack, or a legacy, or got sane, or chucked it, or got lost, or found, or a wife, or had cut his throat, or hanged himself, or got into Parliament or the peerage anyway, anything had happened to him that can happen to an old shepherd or any other man in the bush, and he wasn't there.”

Source : Henry Lawson (1984). “A Fantasy of Man: Henry Lawson Complete Works, 1901-1922”
“I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.”

Source : "Exclusive: Yvonne Strahovski Talks KILLER ELITE, the Final Season of CHUCK & Working With Streisand and Rogen in MY MOTHER’S CURSE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. September 19, 2011.
“Maybe now that we have the same sponsor in Remington we can spend some time together outdoors.”
“I don't feel old or young, I just am”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 27, 2018
“Select your friendships carefully. Gather people around you who will reinforce your lifestyle.”
“Confessional poetry is, to my mind, more slippery than poems that are sloppily autobiographical; I find the confessional mode much more akin to dramatic monologue.”

Source : Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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