"You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest . . ."

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Source : "The Dirge of Alaric, the Visigoth". The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Volume V, No. 25, January-June 1823.

Edward Everett

#Toil Quotes #Wrecks Quotes #Soil Quotes

“If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.”

Source : Tape recording (November 18, 1977) to be played in the event of his assassination (the version of recording given to Frank Robinson) as quoted in Randy Shilts "The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk" (p. 372), 1982.
“If someone had to lose weight, I would tell that person to lose weight. Lose some weight, why can't you take care of yourself. When I say this, the person might think, 'Look who's talking,' but I would reply, 'I'm a boy and you're a girl.'”
“Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.”
“I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films.”

Source : "Profile: Kevin Kline" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2004.
“The Arab and Islamic countries suffer from severe backwardness, and the Western world wants to make them even more backward.”

Source : "Leader of Muslim Brotherhood Mahdi 'Akef: Arab and Islamic Countries Should Obtain Nuclear Technology 'For Military Purposes'". MemriTV, June 2006.
“If you let him go and he doesn't come back to you, he wasn't yours to begin with. It's a lesson learned in first grade”
“I released that I could crank out a song if I practiced it a lot. If I am in the practice of writing songs everyday or every other day, getting ideas and following through with them, and not just saying "I've got this idea, but I will get to it at some point." If I actually sit down and not be lazy, and follow through with it then you just get in the practice of doing things. It feels very productive, and then it gets a lot easier, because you are working the muscle in your brain. The "song-writing muscle" so to speak.”

Source : Source: mousertime.blogspot.com
“Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.”

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