"Gradually, at the concerts, I began to hear calls for 'the fat girl'.... Then I would jump up for the piano stool, forgetting about my size [145 lbs at age 13], and work to get all the laughs I could get."

-- Sophie Tucker

#Girl Quotes #Piano Quotes #Laughing Quotes

“Never since the dawn of human history, as far as I can find out, did people long settled in any region give a friendly welcome to newcomers. One of the disagreeable traits of our human nature seems to be to dislike on sight people who come later than the first settlers.”

Source : Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life”
“Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty.”

Source : 'Pater Noster'
“The first priority to the ninja is to win without fighting.”

Source : Masaaki Hatsumi (1988). “Essence of Ninjutsu”, McGraw-Hill Education
“I work hard. I work 80-90 hours a week in part-time football.”
“The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.”
“Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.”
“What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time as psychic, and pervades both the picture and the eye of the spectator with conceptions of new and unfamiliar elements.”
“I'm always represented as a bit of a class warrior - a bit Down With Men and Down With Middle-Class People. Whereas I'm actually very fond of men and am middle-class. I even went to boarding school in Perthshire.”

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