"By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time."

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Source : "Erin McKean comes to terms with fashion" by Beth Hughes, www.sfgate.com. August 6, 2012.

Erin McKean

#Fashion Quotes #Males Quotes #Lexicographer Quotes

“Aristotle is the last Greek philosopher who faces the world cheerfully; after him, all have, in one form or another, a philosophy of retreat.”
“It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution.”
“Soul Mountain, the story of one manâ€™s quest for inner peace and freedom.”
“It seems to me then as if all the moments of our life occupy the same space, as if future events already existed and were only waiting for us to find our way to them at last, just as when we have accepted an invitation we duly arrive in a certain house at a given time.”
“War creates its own intensity of hatred... You don't want to use force except as an absolute last resort.”

Source : Interview with Laura Knoy, New Hampshire Public Radio, November 5, 2003.
“If you ask why start-ups outperform established enterprises when it comes to catching the next wave, the answer is that they are not conflicted. Everyone is rowing in the same direction. That is never the case in a company that has a portfolio of businesses at different stages in their maturity. So the key to winning there has to be to "zone out" the conflicts - sort of like sending quarrelling children each to their own room.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved.”
“Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.”

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