"'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind."

-- Hortense Calisher

#Wind Quotes #Sound Quotes #Bees Quotes

“In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.”
“Some of the most relaxing weekends I have ever enjoyed were those I spent quietly with a sense of all work to date completed, and an absorbing mystery.”
“Loveâ€”the desire to love and be loved, to hold and be held, to give love even if your experience as a recipient has been compromised or incompleteâ€”is the constant on the continuum of hunger, it's what links the anorexic to the garden-variety dieter, it's the persistent pulse of need and yearning behind the reach for food, for sex, for something.”
“A hero can be anyone, even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat on a young boy's shoulders to let him know the world hadn't ended.”
“I'm a strong person. I'm also very sassy and a little bit angsty sometimes.”
“I just try to approach and serve the music in the way that I think is right for the band I'm in at the time.”
“Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary”

Source : "Then Again". Book by Diane Keaton, November 15, 2011.
“There is ever the prior question of plain duty, with which nothing else, however tempting or promising of success, can come into conflict; and such seasons may be only those when our faith and patience are put on trial, so as to bring it clearly before us, whether or not, quite irrespective of all else, we are content to leave everything in the hands of God.”

Source : Alfred Edersheim (2013). “Bible History: Old Testament”, p.510, Ravenio Books

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