12 5 / 2011
Quoth the Heiress:
“If you want to do something, don’t tell other people about it, just do it. Other people will always find a reason to try and prevent you.”
-Gladys Deacon; Duchess of Marlboro, American Heiress & Intellectual
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10 7 / 2010
Quoth the Novelist:
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
-George Orwell
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08 7 / 2010
Quoth the Burlesque Model:
“When someone calls another person ugly, all I see is the person that’s saying it become instantly less beautiful.”
-Dita Von Teese
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05 7 / 2010
Quoth the Journalist/Author:
“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
-Hunter S. Thompson
02 6 / 2010
Quoth the Artist:
“The greatest danger
for most of us
is not that our aim is
too high
and we miss it,
but that it is
too low
and we reach it.”
-Michelangelo
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13 5 / 2010
Quoth the Poet:
“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
-Robert Frost
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05 5 / 2010
Quoth the Novelist:
“No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good…Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.”
-C.S. Lewis
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29 4 / 2010
Quoth the Author/Humorist:
“Like anyone nostalgic for a time he didn’t live through, I chose to weed out the little inconveniences: polio, say, or the thought of eating stewed squirrel.
-David Sedaris; When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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29 3 / 2010
Quoth Kate the Great:
“It’s either some kind of electricity or some kind of energy but, whatever it is, I’ve got it.”
-Katharine Hepburn; upon being asked what she thought ‘star quality’ was
09 3 / 2010
Quoth Hollywood Royalty:
“When you talk about a great actor, you’re not talking about Tom Cruise.”
-Lauren Bacall
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