"The Romanovs are overtaken by the Indian Maharajahs as American heiresses pick over the carcasses of fallen Empire."

-- Suzy Menkes

#Empires Quotes #Heiress Quotes #Fallen Quotes

“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”
“The primary problem is not to provide the public with the knowledge of how far it is to the nearest star and what genes are made of .. Rather, the problem is to get them to reject irrational and supernatural explanations of the world, the demons that exist only in their imaginations, and to accept a social and intellectual apparatus, Science, as the only begetter of truth.”
“It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.”
“I'm devious, cruel, cunning and addictive.”
“Vinyl, CDs or laptops, it doesn't matter - you should use whatever you're comfortable with. If you're on the dancefloor and there's good music coming out of the speakers, that should be enough. If you're standing there storing your chin going: 'This would sound better if it was on vinyl', yes it might do, but at the end of the day, people want to go to a party.”
“People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests.”

Source : "North Carolina race remains tight" by Martin Kady Ii, www.politico.com. September 09, 2008.
“The research period of a film is the most exciting part of the process, and filming is sometimes a letdown because when you're dealing with biopic material, the real thing is always much more intricate than the story told in the film.”

Source : "Alessandro Nivola On the Record". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. April 08, 2010.
“It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that. "And I, Harry Dresden, am that man," I stated.”

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