"I've always wanted to go to Timbuktu. First of all I think it has the best name of anywhere in the world."

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David Tang

#Thinking Quotes #Names Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“History, of course, is never real. People either glorify it or horrify it. Or at the very least color it.”
“Sometimes I'll have a brief window of mini-fame thanks to 'Access Hollywood.' But it only lasts a couple of days, and then no one recognizes me anymore.”
“Stones and bones; snow and frost; seeds and beans and polliwogs. Paths and twigs, assorted kisses, We all know who Daddy misses! His two little frogs of girls, thatâ€™s who. They know where they are, do you, do you?”
“An answering smile drifted across his tanned face. "What is mine, I intend to keep.”

Source : Judith McNaught (1991). “A Kingdom of Dreams”, p.366, Simon and Schuster
“No fear of forgetting the good-humoured faces that meet us in our walks each day.”

Source : Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery”, p.11
“The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault of your own, your body begins to fail. You regress. Strong limbs become feeble, keen senses grow dull, hardy constitutions deteriorate. Beauty withers. Organs quit. You remember yourself in your prime, and wonder where that person went. As your wisdom and experience are peaking, your traitorous body becomes a prison.”

Source : Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2007). “Fablehaven”, p.146, Simon and Schuster
“Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.”
“It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.”

Source : "High Fidelity". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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