"Careless talk costs lives."

-- Elizabeth Wein

#Cost Quotes #Careless Quotes

“Being born on the earth is the highest honor and greatest privilege. To be alive as human beings gives us the chance to pull off exquisite and Herculean feats of magic that are not possible in nirvana or heaven or any other so-called paradise, higher dimension, or better place,being alive right now is the greatest gift i got from God.”
“Where there was nature and earth, life and water, I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater, so devoid of reason and light and spirit that the mind could not grasp it on any sort of conscious level and if you came close the mind would reel backward, unable to take it in. It was a vision so clear and real and vital to me that in its purity it was almost abstract. This was what I could understand, this was how I lived my life, what I constructed my movement around, how I dealt with the tangible.”
“There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.”

Source : 1932 Reading,Writing and Remembering, ch.8.
“Jim Pagliaroni joined the club tonight and is going to be a welcome addition. He was describing a girl that one of the ballplayers had been out with and said, â€œIt's hard to say exactly what she looked like. She was kind of Joe Torre with tits.â€ This joke can only be explained with a picture of Joe Torre. But I'm not sure any exist. He dissolves camera lenses.”
“Everybody I knew, practically, was a journalist when I was a kid - my father, all of his friends. I never wanted to be like those people.”
“Everybody is supposed to be a part of their own community.”

Source : "Jill Scott returns to her roots for new music video" by Sarah Hoye, www.cnn.com. March 24, 2011.
“I'm sure you can even find ménage à trois in medieval tales.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“You get in a smart crack, and everyone laughs and kikis because you've found a flaw and exaggerated it, then you've got a good read going.”

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