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“The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with ordinary clothes, so that nothing be lacking to honesty and necessity, yet nothing be added to increase its beauty.”
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“If you know the differences between an oak and a poplar, a spruce and a pine, down to the needles... you are able to paint that tree with more conviction, even if done with a few broad strokes.”
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“A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.”
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“There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands.”
Source : Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1949). “Murder by gaslight: Victorian tales”
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“You've got to deal with the world with all of its troubles, while you've still got this alternate image. It's not about being in a different place or being in heaven, it's about seeing the world through magical eyes for a moment, and then being back in that same world, and everything is dull and gray. Having to remember the color.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“What lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age.”
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“We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention”
Source : Diane Holloway, Lee Harvey Oswald (2000). “The Mind of Oswald”, p.164, Trafford on Demand Pub
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“I believe in past lives but I know nothing about mine and I don't want to know. I live in the present, taking one day at a time.”
Source : "Who is the real Uri Geller?". Holistic London Guide Interview, www.urigeller.com. Winter/Spring, 1997.