"A basic ingredient in the manufacture of perfume, the attar-a heavy, pale-yellow oil stored in small metal drums-had been put up as collateral by Bulgaria, in lieu of gold, at the Moscow Narodny Bank, a Communist finance house for East-West trade."

-- S. J. Perelman

#Oil Quotes #Yellow Quotes #House Quotes

“Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil.”
“I have strong sentiments toward Iran, since I distinguish between the Iranian regime and the Iranian people. I highly esteem Iranian music and culture.”

Source : "Interview: Israeli President Discusses Iran Nuclear Standoff". www.rferl.org. March 20, 2006.
“Doing a sitcom is like doing a play - you rehearse for three or four days, and then you shoot what you rehearsed on Friday night in front of an audience. An hour-long drama is like shooting a movie. You're shooting 13-14 hour days. The endurance itself is different.”
“The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.”
“One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters.”

Source : "Esquire's Nominating Academy Presents: Stellan Skarsgård". www.esquire.com. January 18, 2012.
“In places like universities, where everyone talks too rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.”
“According to an analysis by the Tax Policy Center, Donald Trump`s tax plan is going to increase the national debt by more than 50 percent over ten years.”

Source : Source: www.msnbc.com
“Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage that allows us to be brave - that is, to acknowledge that there is more beauty than our eyes can bear, that precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm. And therefore, this courage allows us, as the old men said, to make ourselves useful. It allows us to be generous, which is another way of saying exactly the same thing.”

Source : Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.246, Macmillan

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