"When I go to the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World, they have wonderful topiary in the shapes of characters. I apply the principle to my life. "Prune away that which is not a Disney princess!" I think Michelangelo said that."

-- Sara Benincasa

#Princess Quotes #Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“There's a dishonest tyranny in the liberal/progressive/socialist agenda that comes down and says 'we are here because we care about you; we want what's best for you'. But really what they want is the control of your life.”
“I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day.”
“If you look back on the period, the 1980s has never been seen as cool. You think of the music, and it always has a kitsch quality to it because everyone looks so ridiculous. Even the Nineties, with The Stone Roses and other bands, was cool before the Eighties. It really missed the boat! The Sixties was always cool, even then. That was my Dad's era and I was always jealous of that. But now, as an adult, looking back, we were part of this mental time. It was the most enormous amount of tribes that could have ever existed in one place.”
“There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.”
“I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.”
“...I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus they suck the life right out of a party.”

Source : "Moonlight Mile". Book by Dennis Lehane, November 2, 2010.
“And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns, and farmhouses had nestled among their trees, wind wheels similar to those he saw and bearing like vast advertisements, gaunt and distinctive symbols of the new age, cast their whirling shadows and stored incessantly the energy that flowed away incessantly through all the arteries of the city. ... The great circular shapes of complaining wind-wheels blotted out the heavens ...”
“It was necessary to close the front against Germany and that it (victory) depended on us whether it was to be closed or not.”

Source : "The unmaking of Adolf Hitler". Book by Eugene Davidson, p. 377, 2004.

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