"We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television."

-- Richard O'Brien

#America Quotes #Australia Quotes #Shapes Quotes

“Sometimes you have to admit that a relationship can't be fixed. That no matter how much you want to, you can't trust some people.”
“When faced with the choice, choose happy”
“The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one â€“ everything depends on the circumstances, a rule applicable as much to literary style as to life. Each word tugs another one along, one idea another, and that is how books, governments and revolutions are made â€“ some even say that is how Nature created her species.”

Source : Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (2010). “The Devil's Church and Other Stories”, p.11, University of Texas Press
“Part of flirting is that you tend to give each other a little extra slack to be obscure - to say things that are suggestive and nuanced, rather than clear and comprehensible, things you wouldn't put up with in an essay or something written by a stranger - and that can be so exciting.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“We all have to start with ourselves. It is time to walk the talk. Take the journey of making very difficult decisions. Start removing things from your life that are not filling your cup and adding things that bring joy in to your life.”
“If you can call a Chevrolet a Chev, why can't you call a Japanese a Jap?”
“Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people, choose inappropriate jobs and book unsuccessful holidays: the tendency not to understand who we are and what will satisfy us.”
“Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.”

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