"Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right."

-- Carnie Wilson

#Becoming Quotes #Strange Quotes

“The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.”
“There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield.”

Source : Jeff Shaara, Michael Shaara (2012). “The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)”, p.434, Ballantine Books
“The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 291, 1895.
“It's so legato it's difficult to splice. Sibelius was famous for that.”
“According to the American Psychological Association, the most effective stress-relief strategies are exercising or playing sports, praying or attending a religious service, reading, listening to music, spending time with friends or family, getting a massage, going outside of ra walk, meditating or doing yoga, and spending time with a creative hobby. (The least effective strategies are gambling, shopping, smoking, drinking, eating, playing video games, surfing the Internet, and watching TV or movies for more than two hours.”

Source : Peggy Orenstein (2011). “Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture”, p.6, Harper Collins
“I think that I always loved being the centre of attention!”
“Charity is not a potency of the soul, because if it were it would be natural. Nor is it a passion, because it is not in a sensitive potency in which are all passions. Nor is it a habit, because a habit is removed with difficulty; charity, however, is easily lost through one act of mortal sin. Therefore charity is not something created in the soul.”
“The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim”

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