"A room of one's own isn't nearly enough. A house, or, best, an island of one's own."

-- Lillian Hellman

#Islands Quotes #House Quotes #Solitude Quotes

“Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.”
“Nothing can take the sting out of the worldâ€™s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.”

Source : "Billy Crystal Gets Kiss From George Clooney In Oscars Opener" by John Mitchell, www.mtv.com. February 26, 2012.
“In a very real sense, therefore, advocacy of the doctrine of continuity [i.e evolutionism] has always necessitated on retreat from pure empiricism [i.e., logic an observation], and contrary to what is widely assumed by evolutionary biologists today, it has always been the anti-evolutionists [i.e creationist], not the evolutionists, in the scientific community who have struck rigidly to the facts and adhered to a more strictly empirical approach... It was Darwin the evolutionist who was retreating from the facts.”
“Africa's downfall has always been the cult of the personality. And their names always seem to begin with M. We've had Mobutu and Mengistu and I'm not going to add Meles to the list.”

Source : "Ethiopia proves there can be life after death" by Jonathan Dimbleby, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2002.
“I distrust pious phrases, especially when they issue from my mouth. I try militantly never to be affected by the pious language of the faithful but it is always coming out when you least expect it. In contrast to the pious language of the faithful, the liturgy is beautifully flat.”
“I have little weird things that aren't really specific but are just kind of odd. I write my 5's backwards, and I don't know if anyone would even care, at all.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Through my curtains I can see a big yellow moon. Iâ€™m thinking of all the people in the world who will be looking at that same moon. I wonder how many of them havenâ€™t got any eyebrows?”

Source : Louise Rennison (2013). “The Complete Fab Confessions of Georgia Nicolson:”, p.18, HarperCollins UK
“I'm probably never going to be satisfied with anything we do. I think there's always the possibility of doing better. And I'd say we're doing better than we were a year ago, in terms of delivery and quality of service, but nowhere near what we should be doing .”

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