Why did people do it? Why this herd curiosity about a street, a house, windows, doors? He was a public servant, the Inspector mused, but there were times when he would enjoy loading all the rubbernecks onto barges and towing them out to sea to be served, with ceremony, to sharks.


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I would say I'm voluptuous. Statuesque. Definitely curvaceous.
QUEEN LATIFAH
When I'm wearing too-high heels and swaying my hips, I do that Sharon Stone kind of thing - she ...
QUEEN LATIFAH
My legs are nice, my lips are shapely, and my breasts are pretty. They popped up when I was 11 and t...
QUEEN LATIFAH
I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Asta...
QUEEN LATIFAH
You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.
QUEEN LATIFAH
My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around...
QUEEN LATIFAH
I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I gue...
QUEEN LATIFAH
We are using the income to fund the rest of the program. Without the CAP program, you don't have the...
FRANK QUEEN
If you don't spend the money in exactly the way you said you would, you have to give back all the mo...
FRANK QUEEN
Everyone wants the fairy tale, but don’t forget there are dragons in those stories.
R. QUEEN
There is nothin like a llama... well mabey an alpaca. But they'er kinda like trademarks of llamas...
LLAMA QUEEN
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the ...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, pow...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with ...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Iron hand in a velvet glove.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than t...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Error is discipline through which we advance.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
It has often been observed, that those who have the most time at their disposal profit by it the lea...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fa...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do wh...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, revie...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
I see nothing for you on this earth but that field which I once christened 'Briars;' go out upon tha...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Worship God by reverencing the human soul as God's chosen sanctuary. Revere it in yourselves, rever...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial...
GEORGE ELLERY HALE
The world is governed by opinion.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Conscience, the sense of right, the power of perceiving moral distinctions, the power of discerning ...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished;...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the ...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds. In the best books, auth...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING