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- The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
- Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989), from Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp, by Pierre Cabanne, 1987, pp. 13-14
- I just drank eighteen whiskies. That must be a record.
- Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953)
- After thirty nine years this is all I've done.
- Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953)
- Any woman with a purse that big's bound to have somethin' in it that I don't wanna know about.
- Brian Buckner, True Blood, Plaisir d'amour, 2008
- When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver (1864 - 1943)
- To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
- Steve Prefontaine
- We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
- Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
- We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
- Richard Dawkins (1941 - ), "The Root of All Evil", UK Channel 4, 2006
- War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
- A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
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