"My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother."

-- Donna Leon

#Mother Quotes #Dog Quotes #Brother Quotes

“The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.”
“Dear gentlemen, let me die a natural death.”

Source : Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (centenary edition), revised by Ivor Evans (1975)
“Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch of grass, shrubbery and the occasional tree that exists purely to stop the original developer's plans from looking like a howling concrete wilderness.”
“The year before was my first collection for Emilio Pucci, and I was just starting the job and working in his Renaissance Palazzo, where Pucci is headquartered, so that inspired me. I found this image in the book. It was an old image of Emilio Pucci hanging out by the seaside with all of these women, and that's exactly how I used to think about this house - more of a lifestyle thing. This beautiful life. So I'm really working on that.”
“Style is the dress of thoughts, and let them be ever so just.”
“I want the pleasures of the real exploitation movie, and exploitation has changed so much in 40 years. Plenty of people grow up with this fantasy of, "We're going to do it like Roger Corman did it," as that sounds so fun. If you make something small, goofy and exploitative, it's nowhere near the guaranteed moneymaker it might have been 40 years ago. If you look at the way the world works now and money is made, it doesn't seem that fun. Maybe that's just a mental block I have and I need to get over that and find that corner where you can make money and still have a good movie.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I'm just basking in the glory.”
“By that sin fell the angels.”

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