"It's just an old alley cat that has followed us all the way home. It hasn't a star on its forehead, or a silky satiny coat. No proud tiger stripes, no dainty tread, no elegant velvet throat. It's a splotchy, blotchy city cat, not a pretty cat, a rough little bag of old bones. 'Beauty,' we shall call you. 'Beauty' come in."

-- Eve Merriam

#Stars Quotes #Home Quotes #Cat Quotes

“The irony of the information age is that it lends credibility to uninformed opinion.”
“I would like to see the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Sind and Baluchistan amalgamated into a single State. Self-government within the British Empire, or without the British Empire, the formation of a consolidated North-West Indian Muslim State appears to me to be the final destiny of the Muslims, at least of North-West India.”
“Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation.”
“I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.”
“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.”

Source : "The Salmon of Doubt". Book by Douglas Adams, en.wikiquote.org. 2002.
“I am very proud that Britain has helped to lead a stronger case on climate change in the EU and the EU has led the case across the world.”
“Geniuses have the shortest biographies.”

Source : Claire Messud (2015). “The Emperor's Children: Picador Classic”, p.288, Pan Macmillan
“Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.”

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