"The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“I now extend to you the invitation to help transform the trickle into a floodâ€¦.I exhort you to sweep the earth with messages filled with righteousness and truthâ€”messages that are authentic, edifying, and praiseworthyâ€”and literally to sweep the earth as with a flood.”
“Listen,â€ F. Jasmine said. â€œWhat Iâ€™ve been trying to say is this. Doesnâ€™t it strike you as strange that I am I, and you are you? I am F. Jasmine Addams. And you are Berenice Sadie Brown. And we can look at each other, and touch each other, and stay together year in and year out in the same room. Yet always I am I, and you are you. And I canâ€™t ever be anything else but me, and you can ever be anything else but you. Have you ever thought of that? And does it seem to you strange?”
“I havenâ€™t changed my mind. Thatâ€™s the point! I want to spend my life with you even though itâ€™s totally irrational. And you have short earlobes. Socially and genetically thereâ€™s no reason for me to be attracted to you. The only logical conclusion is that I must be in love with you.”
“I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, 'Do you think you could give me that?' That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I'm really far into this now, really committed. Like, I don't think I'd go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it's the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn't it?”
“Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.”

Source : Interview With James Bassil, www.askmen.com.
“I'm bout that fast money, money ain't got no patience. But if them boys come run like you on probation.”
“Dreams don't have an expiration date.”
“I'm so fortunate in that I've never had another job to pay a bill but acting, since the day I got out of high school.”

Source : "Amy Ryan" with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2008.

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