"If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the up button."
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"Scientific Discovery [10w] The greatest scientific discoveries were madelooking at the overlooked."
"You may not be the best, but you should not remain in the rest."
"I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use."
"Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was."Is there any tea on this spaceship?"he asked."
"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter"
"Well, that's an evil smile..."
"Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred."
"For books are more than books, they are the lifeThe very heart and core of ages past,The reason why men lived and worked and died,The essence and quintessence of their lives."
"On 'Sufferer,' I'm talking about the younger generation that has no other option for success than to find a gun somewhere. I try to appeal to them: 'I know you a sufferer, but it doesn't mean that you can't or shouldn't expect any better.' It's a lot different than from what I usually say, like, 'Get busy, shake that thing.'"
"Live authentically. Why would you continue to compromise something that's beautiful to create something that is fake?"
"Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be."
"Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends."
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."
"Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves."
"You wanted to lick my face the first time you saw me? Is that usually what you do when you’re attracted to guys?” I shake my head. “Not your face, your dimple. And no. You’re the only guy I’ve ever had the urge to lick.” He smiles at me confidently. “Good. Because you’re the only girl I’ve ever had the urge to love."
"It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own."
"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope."
"Do I look stupid?"snarled Uncle Vernon, a bit of fried egg dangling from his bushy mustache."
"Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?"
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