"People are easily intimidated when they decorate their home. They think it has to be one way. But there's no one way. It's your way, your style. At the end of the day, you have to live there. It's your cocoon, your nest. You have to be happy in it."

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Source : "Big, Easy Style: Creating Rooms You Love to Live In". Book by Bryan Batt, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2011.

Bryan Batt

#Home Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Words his soul danced to.”

Source : David Malouf (1994). “Remembering Babylon”, Vintage
“Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to read them out. I could never listen to even the better kind of modern novels without extreme irksomeness.”
“I do honestly and sincerely believe in the necessity or desirability of Hindu-Muslim unity. I am also fully prepared to trust the Muslim leaders. But what about the injunctions of the Koran and Hadis? The leaders cannot over-ride them. Are we then doomed? I hope not. I hope your learned mind and wise head will find some way out of this difficulty.”

Source : Presidential address by Muhammad Ali Jinnah to the Muslim League in Lahore, www.columbia.edu. 1940.
“One of the keys to thinking big is total focus. I think of it almost as a controlled neurosis, which is a quality I've noticed in many highly successful entrepreneurs.”
“I jerked my chin toward Frostâ€™s body. â€˜All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.â€™ Hao said, â€œLife is not safe. A man might spend his whole time on earth staying safe in a basement, and in the end, he still dies like everyone else.â€ Half-naked, covered with the same filth we all were, he still gave the impression of being in control of himself and his environment.”
“I've always liked game shows - the competitive aspect and the character-driven personalities you see.”
“I'm no cook. When I want lemon on chicken, I spray it with Pledge.”
“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.”

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