"Beauty is momentary in the mind -- The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing."

-- Wallace Stevens

#Life Quotes #Beauty Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Nobody actually played tennis in my family.”
“I think from the age of thirteen, I really wanted to be a producer and I've always thought that the producer was the top of the tree.”

Source : "Conversations With Electric Light Orchestra’s Jeff Lynne, The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz and The Rippingtons’ Russ Freeman". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.
“Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.”

Source : "'Twilight' Star Cam Gigandet Talks About Creepy Kids In 'Unborn,' Being Shirtless Onscreen". Interview with Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. October 24, 2008.
“Iâ€™m a Virgo; itâ€™s in my sign to be hard on myself.”
“To abolish a status, which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects; but it would be extreme cruelty to the African Savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life; especially now when their passage to the West-Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated.”
“Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way thatâ€™s consistent with those beliefs. Many people today resent the suggestion that theyâ€™re in charge of the way they feel.Those people are mistaken. That was a big lesson and I learned it several hundred times before it stuck. What you do, who youâ€™re with, and how you feel about the world around you, is completely up to you.”
“Friends buy you lunch. Best friends eat your lunch.”
“Women have a natural tendency to want to nurture and take care of men. You always think that the guy is going to end up coming around and that youâ€™re going to be the one that saves him - like the Oasis song.”

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