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Roddy Doyle quote: "Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from..."

Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.

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I'm always disappointed when I see the word 'Puritan' tossed around as shorthand for a bunch of generic, boring, stupid, judgmental killjoys. Because to me, they are very specific, fascinating, sometimes brilliant, judgmental killjoys who rarely agreed on anything except that Catholics are going to Hell. Sarah Vowell
Janet Jackson quote: "It's really about being pleased with yourself."
It's really about being pleased with yourself. Janet Jackson
I clutched the leg of the table again immediately, and pressed it to my bosom as if it had been the companion of my youth and friend of my soul. I foresaw what was coming, and I felt that this time I really was gone. Charles Dickens
Saul Bellow quote: "Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always..."
Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always the fair-minded who are in the right. Saul Bellow
If grass grows and withers, it can only mean that it is part of a greater thing, which is even more real; not that the grass is less real than it looks. St. Thomas (Aquinas) has a really logical right to say, in the words of the modern mystic, A. E.: "I begin by the grass to be bound again to the Lord. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Romario quote: "If someone criticizes me, I strike back."
If someone criticizes me, I strike back. Romario
T. S. Eliot quote: "That is not what I meant at all, that is not it at all."
That is not what I meant at all, that is not it at all. T. S. Eliot
We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see. Tom Stoppard
But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker. Jason Alexander
Lawrence Durrell quote: "Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked."
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked. Lawrence Durrell
Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine. Larry Holmes
I keep 'The Paper Bag Princess' by Robert Munsch on my shelf to remind me that my prince will love me no matter what I wear. Cheesy! Brittany Snow
Ernest Bramah quote: "He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be..."
He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit. Ernest Bramah
Up until doing this movie, I hadn't really paid a huge amount of attention to those genres, but after finishing this movie, it really gave me a different sense of appreciation of the way the movies play out. Chiaki Kuriyama
Neil Simon quote: "If you can go through life without experiencing pain you..."
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet. Neil Simon