"Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor."

“Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.”

“Own your beauty whatever shape or form it comes in.”

Source : ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“The qualities we possess should never be a matter for satisfaction, but the qualities we have discarded.”

“Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness.”

“Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest. People lie when you ask them what they eat when they are alone. A salad, they tell you. But when you persist, they confess to peanut butter and bacon sandwiches deep fried and eaten with hot sauce, or spaghetti with butter and grape jam.”

“The American mind in particular has been trained to equate success with victory, to equate doing well with beating someone.”

Source : Elliot Aronson (2011). “CourseSmart International E-Book for The Social Animal”, p.257, Palgrave Macmillan

“Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.”

Source : Irving Penn, Virginia Heckert, Anne Lacoste, J. Paul Getty Museum (2009). “Irving Penn: Small Trades”, p.18, Getty Publications

“I’ve learnt to listen. I don’t think I always did listen. Not just in plays, but in life. And you have to hear what people are saying before you can respond.”