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Dave Barry quote: "Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172..."

Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.

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Sonny Terry quote: "It's very easy to learn. And very difficult to master."
It's very easy to learn. And very difficult to master. Sonny Terry
We have these earthly bodies. We don't know what they want. Half the time, we pretend they are under our mental thumb, but that is the illusion of the healthy and the protected. Of sedate lovers. For the body has emotions it conceives and carries through without concern for anyone or anything else. Love is one of those, I guess. Going back to something very old knit into the brain as we were growing. Hopeless. Scorching. Ordinary. Louise Erdrich
In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason. Zbigniew Brzezinski
A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat. Allen West
There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time. Philip Stanhope
Maybe because she doesn't try so hard to seduce and impress, I guess that's why some guys fell for her. Because she's so different and crazy and we all like a little bit of that in our life. Caroline Dhavernas
I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished. Charles Dickens
When it came time to find employment, I set my sights on becoming an engineer at a home electronics manufacturer, a field that was closely related to my major at university. Koichi Tanaka
Annie Dillard quote: "Write as if you were dying."
Write as if you were dying. Annie Dillard
George Eliot quote: "Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do..."
Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins. George Eliot
I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should. William Odom
Gregory Corso quote: "If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved."
If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved. Gregory Corso
Sextus Propertius quote: "Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest."
Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest. Sextus Propertius
W. Somerset Maugham quote: "You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me...."
You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now. W. Somerset Maugham
To his surprise he felt a moment of regret, of sadness that his quest for his mother and father would soon be over. As long as he searched for them he was prepared to be hungry and ill, but now that the search had ended he felt saddened by the memory of all he had been through, and of how much he had changed. He was closer now to the ruined battlefields and this fly-infested truck, to the nine sweet potatoes in the sack below the driver's seat, even in a sense to the detention center, than he... J. G. Ballard