"It is as hard to take success as it is failure."

-- Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“With Barack Obama as president and the super-happening Michelle Obama as First Lady, you would think a new tone, a new tune, a kicky new jazzitude, would have entered Washington discourse, but it remains a landlocked island unto itself, held captive by its tribal fevers.”
“Quiet people, people who arent given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - theyre also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.”
“I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves.”
“Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in.”
“Well, I grew up in a tough neighborhood.”
“Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising.”
“Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.”
“Fashion should be something that in the morning, when you open your window, you say, 'Oh fantastic, sun!' Then you take your shower, you say, 'OK fantastic, which colour I wear today because I feel happy?' This should be fashion.”

Source : "King of bling". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2003.

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