"Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside, and at dawn on Monday the city awoke out of its lethargy of centuries with the warm, soft breeze of a great man dead and rotting grandeur."

-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#Monday Quotes #Autumn Quotes #Weekend Quotes

“I'm aware there are certain products that are being advertised - food products - with 'no chemicals whatsoever.' Well, that would be pretty hard to arrange, since everything around us is made up of atoms and molecules - chemicals - including ourselves.”
“I was good at football and cricket at school. My dad said, 'Son, be an architect,' and I came to Melbourne passionate about becoming an architect.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I am a handmaiden of Death. I walk in His dark shadow and do His bidding. Serving Him is my only purpose in this life...”
“I'm a very outgoing person so I like girls who are not afraid to be themselves. I'm not a shy person and when I hang out with a girl, I want to be able to talk to her. At the same time I like a girl I can have a conversation with - as opposed to me sitting there talking away because she won't open her mouth. I like conversations and I'm a really big sucker for personality.”

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com
“Believe that God has heard you.”
“Not sure there is a truth that's "for sure."”

Source : "Actor Lenny Jacobson: On getting in the zone, vulnerability, and preferring chaos". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“...Americans...automatically equate dissension with disloyalty. They view any criticism of our existing social, economic, and political forms, as sedition and subversion. ...(" The growing reluctance of Americans to criticize, and their increasing tendency to condemn those who, in ever dwindling numbers, will still voice dissent") is disturbing, deplorable, and truly dangerous.”
“There is no such thing as an "aspiring writer". You are a writer. Period.”

Source : Matthew Reilly (2009). “Area 7”, p.573, Pan Macmillan

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