"What is elegance? Soap and water!"

-- Cecil Beaton

#Water Quotes #Soap Quotes #Elegance Quotes

“You can't run a government solely on a business basis...Government should be human. It should have a heart.”
“It's fine to have talent, but talent is the last of it. In an acting career, as in an acting performance, you've got to have vitality. The secret of successful acting is identical with a woman's beauty secret: joy in living.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.”
“Hardly one soldier in a hundred was inspired by religious feeling of even the crudest kind. It would have been difficult to remain religious in the trenches even if one had survived the irreligion of the training battalion at home.”
“Now I know why the Lord took his day off on Sunday. That must be the day he personally greets his favorites.”

Source : Jason F. Wright (2007). “The Wednesday Letters: A Novel”
“The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice.”
“There must be some deep psychological reason why we turn so instinctively toward home at this special time. . . . A place where every day will be Christmas, with everybody there together. At home.”

Source : Marjorie Holmes (1995). “Marjorie Holmes: The Inspirational Writings: A Collection Consisting of Love and Laughter;...”, Bbs Publishing Corporation
“The main thing was finding this... voice that I had interest in, which I'll call the quiet-yet-stoic voice: the very quiet yet very strong voice that I developed, that people would want to hear and that was worth paying attention to.”

Source : "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 18, 2011.

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