"You need to have your eyes open because it's really scary what's happening."

-- Zoe Leonard

#Eye Quotes #Scary Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Elvis Presley was the first and the best. He is my favorite of all time.”
“What did I think of Princeton? Well, the answer to that question requires a story. When I first arrived, I looked around me at the Gothic buildings â€” younger, I later learned, than many of the mosques of this city, but made through acid treatment and ingenious stone-masonry to look older...”
“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”

Source : Walter Mosley (2009). “The Long Fall: The First Leonid McGill Mystery”, p.78, Penguin
“Intense pain often pushed me to make changes. The pain of the eating disorder pushed me into recovering from eating-disordered behaviors, and then the emotional turmoil I experienced without those behaviors (not knowing how to cope with perfectionism, feelings, and life in general) took me even further, so that I ultimately found serenity.”

Source : Jenni Schaefer (2009). “Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life”, p.5, McGraw Hill Professional
“I realized early on, maybe better than some of my competitors did, that a textile business can run only if you have scale. I decided to horizontally and vertically integrate, adding everything from spinning, dyeing, weaving, and stitching to processing and packing.”
“I think it really takes about 15-20 selfies that someone takes on their phone before they post the right one. There was this selfie that I took where I was wearing a white bathing suit, and it was after I had the baby, and it was a sexy pic. It took about 15 pictures to get the one that I posted. So you'll see all the ones that didn't make it. And you'll see all my selfies from the past years, including my first-ever selfie when I was four years old.”
“The crazy thing about the entertainment industry now is that you can't do just one thing. If you're focusing in on just one thing you're pretty much doomed.”
“Because life is short. I feel weâ€™re made of a hunger, a desire for life â€“ if that can be described as a material. As I get older, Iâ€™m trying to open that channel more. If you donâ€™t, if you close off desire and get complacent, life loses its freshness and sweetness, and thatâ€™s what I crave. Thatâ€™s my bliss.”

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