"I feel these days like a very large flamingo. No matter what way I turn, there is always a very large bill."

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Source : Joseph O'Connor (1994). “The secret world of the Irish male”

Joseph O'Connor

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“It's not like you get up in the morning on the first day of shooting and say, 'I'm so smart today I'm going to determine every choice I make from now until a year and a half from now.' So it changes. You gain insights. The movie bucks you.”
“PLAIN SUPERFICIALITY is the character of a speech, in which any two points being taken, the speaker is found to lie wholly with regard to those two points.”
“The Apple iPad is not going to be the company's next runaway best seller. Not if the industry can help it. ... with the iPad, Apple may have irked its somewhat new partner Intel Corp. Intel gets spanked by nobody.”

Source : "The iPad faces industry backlash". www.marketwatch.com. February 12, 2010.
“A home is more than just where you live; it reflects who you are.”
“The only difference between resigning and resigning is a hyphen.”
“However, my problems with my memory are further complicated by the fact that while I don't have any recollection of things I have actually done, I have very vivid recollections of loads of things that I haven't done.”
“A good kitchen should be sufficiently remote from the principal apartments of the house, that the members, visitors, or guests of the family, may not perceive the odour incident to cooking, or hear the noise of culinary operations.”

Source : Isabella Beeton (2000). “Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management: Abridged edition”, p.101, OUP Oxford
“The reductio ad absurdum is God's favorite argument.”

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