"It has been said in praise of some men, that they could take whole hours together upon anything; but it must be owned to the honor of the other sex that there are many among them who can talk whole hours together upon nothing. I have known a woman branch out into a long extempore dissertation on the edging of a petticoat, and chide her servant for breaking a china cup, in all the figures of rhetoric."

-- Joseph Addison

#Sex Quotes #Men Quotes #Talking Quotes

“Nelson Mandela is a leader Barack Obama should try to emulate... He could start by spending 27 years in prison.”
“Why it is that a garment which is honestly attractive in, say, 1910 should be honestly ridiculous a few years later and honestly charming again a few years later still is one of those things which are not satisfactorily to be explained and are therefore jolly and exciting and an addition to the perennial interest of life.”

Source : Margery Allingham (1961). “Three Cases for Mr. Campion”
“There is a popular heresy abroad today which states that if a little is good, more is better. Following this dictum creates a life which is never fulfilling. Even while you are engaged in one rich experience you are looking about for another. There is no contentment because future plans are always intruding on the present.”
“Decades have a delusive edge to them. They are not, of course, really periods at all, except as any other ten years may be. But we, looking at them, are caught by the different name each bears, and give them different attributes, and tie labels on them, as if they were flowers in a border.”

Source : Rose Macaulay (2011). “Told by an Idiot”, p.66, A&C Black
“The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101.”
“I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they are born. Is an existence without desire very desirable? And is the poverty of desire better than rank poverty itself?”
“What plagues people is not those who don't love them, but those who do.”
“An artist gives. Gives visually, gives through courses, or with free advice, through generosity of spirit and through a need to share.”

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