"So he enjoys a girl who stands up to him," Dad said once we all calmed down. "I like him more already."

-- Kiera Cass

#Girl Quotes #Dad Quotes #Said Quotes

“My experiences with gender bias are probably the norm. What I found was that expectations of women were simply lower, and this resulted in being overlooked for certain opportunities.”
“...because when beauty awes you, you must halt and try to catch your breath and your staggered heart.”

Source : Kate Elliott (2008). “Shadow Gate: Book Two of Crossroads”, p.32, Macmillan
“Honesty is not necessarily interesting. I don't want to hear about your dreams or your acid trips, probably unless you make them really interesting.”
“Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.”
“Branches grew from his hands, his hair. His thoughts tangled like roots in the ground. He strained upward. Pitch ran like tears down his back. His name formed his core; ring upon ring of silence built around it. His face rose high above the forests. Gripped to earth, bending to the wind's fury, he disappeared within himself, behind the hard, wind-scrolled shield of his experiences.”

Source : Patricia A. McKillip (1999). “Riddle-Master”, p.535, Penguin
“We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.”

Source : Letter to Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, 1830.
“Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death, illness and despair, needless suffering, lost opportunities for millions upon millions of people.”
“David Bowie, for me, was the butchest guy in town. Jagger was like a truck driver.”

Source : "Hedi Slimane: 'Maybe I have to start designing again'". Interview with Johnny Davis, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2011.

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