"After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends."

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Ninon de L'Enclos

#Age Quotes #Eighty Quotes

“I suspect that Jesus spoke many of his parables as a kind of sad and holy joke and that that may be part of why he seemed reluctant to explain them because if you have to explain a joke, you might as well save your breath.”
“A cosmic war is like a ritual drama in which participants act out on Earth a battle they believe is actually taking place in the heavens.”
“some people seem to graze like sheep in the placid pastures of their faith. Some of them were born there and never broke away ... Others, after some wandering, found shelter there and are quiet and content. They look with a bland mystification at the mavericks.”

Source : Marjorie Holmes (1985). “I'Ve Got to Talk to Somebody, God: A Woman's Conversations With God”, Doubleday Books
“The last time I wore an animal hide; but this time I settled for this." Eric had been wearing a long trench coat. Now he threw it off dramatically, and I could only stand and stare. Normally, Eric was a blue-jeans-and-T-shirt kind of guy. Tonight, he wore a pink tank top and Lycra leggings[...]They were pink and aqua, like the swirls down the side of Jason's truck.”
“Every day I wake up, there's a little part of my brain that's thinking I might die in a terrorist attack today.”
“I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned.”
“I'm blessed and proud and privileged to have played two wonderful characters on television.”

Source : "Colin Cunningham Talks FALLING SKIES Season 2, the Fun of Being the Antagonist, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 07, 2012.
“There is no such thing as gun control. There is only centralizing gun ownership into the hands of a small, political elite and their minions.”

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