"I always said that in a country where a legislature, its sessions limited by statute, could alter reality by turning back the clock (I actually saw this done, once, with a long pole pushing on the hour hand), any travesty was possible. I see nothing lately to prove me wrong."

-- L. Neil Smith

#Country Quotes #Reality Quotes #Hands Quotes

“Time for some thrillin' heroics.”
“We have one of our greatest human experiences when we get an active idea working in our minds.”
“Perhaps the difference between a professor and a bus driver is that the professor can say stupid things with complete authority while the bus driver is not authorized to make brilliant insights.”

Source : Les Back (2007). “The art of listening”, Berg Publishers
“The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too.”
“Part of the pleasure of editing 'Vogue,' one that lies in a long tradition of this magazine, is being able to feature those who define the culture at any given moment, who stir things up, whose presence in the world shapes the way it looks and influences the way we see it.”
“Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.”
“I just read that one scene for Emily in New Moon, and it was pretty simple and straightforward. They liked that I did it really natural. They were like, "That was great!," even with what little I had. Sometimes just having those little scenes are a lot tougher than if you have five pages because you have to go from 0 to 100 in a snap.”
“No disrespect to Kyle Orton, who's been solid and stable for both the Broncos and the Bears, but I think the upside for Tim Tebow is greater right now.”

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