"I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that lessons of wisdom have never such power over us, as when they are wrought into the heart, through the ground-work of a story which engages the passions: Is it that we are like iron, and must first be heated before we can be wrought upon?"

-- Laurence Sterne

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“My challenge as university minister is about getting right balance of teaching and research.”

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com
“I feel a lot more comfortable at shortstop, but it's no problem, I'll move to make room.”
“It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.”
“Like an old photograph, time can make a feeling fade, but the memory of a first love never fades away.”

Source : Song: BBQ Stain
“Love is a wonderful thing. It makes life worthwhile. I love being in love.”
“In comparing these two writers, he [Samuel Johnson] used this expression: "that there was as great a difference between them as between a man who knew how a watch was made, and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate." This was a short and a figurative statement of his distinction between drawing characters of nature and characters only of manners, but I cannot help being of opinion, that the neat watches of Fielding are as well constructed as the large clocks of Richardson, and that his dial plates are brighter.”
“I am proud of what I've done.”

Source : "Young, gifted and gabby" by Burhan Wazir, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2000.
“I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.”

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