"Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate."

-- Roz Chast

#Long Quotes #Cabinets Quotes #Fingerprints Quotes

“MY THEORY: the trouble is in the mind, for the body is only the house for the mind to dwell in . . . If your mind has been deceived by some invisible enemy into a belief, you have put it into the form of a disease, with or without your knowledge. By my theory or truth I come in contact with your enemy and restore you to health and happiness.”

Source : Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (19??). “Christ Or Science: Chapter IV, the Quimby Manuscripts”
“Be good at something. It makes you valuable.”
“As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.”
“It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.”
“I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have to have.”
“Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.”
“I'm inspired to write songs in many different ways - it can come from a melody, a word or phrase or something I have seen on my travels around the world. It's one of the great bonuses of my job in that I get to meet so many people and experience different cultures and it would be hard not to be inspired.”

Source : "Ross Kemp on why he'll be voting Labour in the General Election" by Ross Kemp, www.mirror.co.uk. April 9, 2010.
“The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.”

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