"I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left."

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George Eliot

#Thinking Quotes #Smell Quotes #Rose Quotes

“It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.”
“The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now and thrust aside. If I failed now I should fail forever.”
“It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I love, and blues is what I always do.”

Source : "'Queen of the Blues' Koko Taylor dies", www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 3, 2009.
“This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.”
“The 'law of wills and causes,' formulated by Comte, . . . is that when men do not know the natural causes of things, they simply attribute them to wills like their own; thus they obtain a theory which provisionally takes the place of science, and this theory forms a basis for theology.”

Source : Andrew Dickson White (2012). “A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods”, p.169, Transaction Publishers
“I have a radio show on Sirius XM. I put it up as a free download on my Soundcloud and on iTunes. That's a portal for me once a month, to play songs I know aren't getting played on that station the rest of the week.”
“You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation.”

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