"When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun."

-- Jeanette Winterson

#Gun Quotes #Iron Quotes #Smell Quotes

“As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has been constantly maintained.”

Source : Chester A. Arthur (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com
“I took one piano lesson and hated it and then didn't take any piano lessons until I was 18.”
“Do you know what Bill Gates has to pull out of an old coat, to feel like I did with a $20 bill? First of all, the idea that Bill Gates has an old coat is preposterous. If he has an old coat, it's the coat Abe Lincoln was shot in and he wears it as a bathrobe - no underwear by the way. He lets his billionaire balls swing willy-nilly beneath the death cloak of the great emancipator. That's your 1%.”
“As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the dice heavily against him.”
“Part of the power of song is that it is a beautiful expression of devotion...singing releases the pent-up joy and thanksgiving we feel because of God's grace and goodness.”
“I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.”
“After I play every character, I always walk away and feel a little different. I've experienced something that's not my life, but I've made it my life.”
“Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.”

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