"And now leave me in peace for a bit! I don't want to answer a string of questions while I am eating. I want to think!" "Good Heavens!" said Pippin. "At breakfast?"

-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#Thinking Quotes #Heaven Quotes #Answers Quotes

“Well, back to the old drawing board.”

Source : Cartoon caption, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 1941
“O my enormous piano, you are not like being outdoors”

Source : Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.216, Univ of California Press
“Sports bars are also a great place for guys to meet other guys--either for sex or for wrestling, whichever feels more right.”
“Since September 11, 2001, the powerful coalition of nations, led by the United States, has seen many successes against al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups. It is imperative that we remain united and steadfast in the quest to defeat terrorism around the world.”
“The thing is that when you don't carry a camera, that's when you see pictures in particular, or at least that's when you think you see pictures in particular. When you do carry it, if you do see one on the occasion that you do, you can take it.”
“Children at certain ages have distinct actions, and boys at certain ages have a particular way of acting too.”
“There appears to be a deeply embedded uneasiness in our culture about throwing away junk that can be reused. Perhaps, in part, it is guilt about consumption. Perhaps it also feels unnatural. Mother Nature doesn't throw stuff away. Dead trees, birds, beetles and elephants are pretty quickly recycled by the system.”
“We become comfortable saying that there's nothing new, and then something like Malarky comes along, which is new and old and different and familiar, but ultimately itself, comfortable in its own skin, wise and smart and crazy-sexy or maybe sexy-crazy-well, you just have to read it to understand. It's a novel that sets its own course, sure and steady, even when it seems like it might be about to go over the edge of the world.”

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