"I always say to people if you want to see what Britain looks like, watch Gogglebox. It's brilliant and funny and warm and clever."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Grayson Perry

#Clever Quotes #People Quotes #Brilliant Quotes

“The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come.”
“Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are termite hills left but no bush?”
“Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.”

Source : T. E. Hulme, Patrick McGuinness (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.57, Psychology Press
“There’s no better way to energize your body, mind, and spirit than by taking care of yourself.”
“I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.”

Source : Benjamin Harrison (1893). “Public Papers and Addresses of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-third President of the United States. March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893”
“The adrenaline gets pumping and you just got to forget about [injuries] and play.”
“We believe that every being is divine, is God. Every soul is a sun covered over with clouds of ignorance; the difference between soul and soul is owing to the difference in density of these layers of clouds.”
“I'm kind of a nerd in that I get really excited about things... I love anticipating if they're going to like their rooms or not.”

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