"Night doesn't fall in Rome; it rises from the city's heart, from the gloomy little alleys and courtyards where the sun never gets much more than a brief look-in, and then, like the mist from the Tiber, it creeps over the rooftops and spreads up into the hills."

-- Caroline Llewellyn

#Fall Quotes #Heart Quotes #Night Quotes

“But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.”
“The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitor.”
“You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.”
“I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance.”
“The thing I love about music is that you can take things that are painful, deep things that hurt you, and you can turn them into something beautiful.”
“If I have a girlfriend, I donâ€™t bring her to flaunt her. She doesnâ€™t get to reap the benefits of me being famous.”
“I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.”

Source : "London 2012 Olympics: Amputee Oscar Pistorius picked for men's 400m" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2012.
“I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.”

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