"It is neither a great praise nor a great blame when people say a tendency is in or out of fashion. If a tendency is as it should be at one time, it is always as it should be."

-- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

#Fashion Quotes #People Quotes #Blame Quotes

“Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling stars. When it happens to me after all these years it still takes my breath away.”
“I have a good imagination. Look, I know what it feels like to have a broken heart. I know what it feels like to feel something for somebody. I'm just too weird to be in a relationship.”

Source : "Diane Warren: 'I've never been in love'". Interview With Caroline Sullivan, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2009.
“No one knows how to love anybody's trouble.”

Source : Frank Stanford (1978). “Crib death”
“The things that stop you having sex with age are exactly the same as those that stop you riding a bicycle.”

Source : Alex Comfort (2003). “The Joy of Sex”, p.226, Simon and Schuster
“If there's ever a kid out there that can't afford to buy the music, I still want them to hear it, and hopefully they'll go to the show, or buy a T-shirt from the band. That's the idea.”
“I've been writing full-time since I was 23,”
“A bird in the boughs sang "June," And "June" hummed a bee In a Bacchic glee As he tumbled over and over Drunk with the honey-dew.”

Source : CLINTON SCOLLARD (1888). “OLD AND NEW WORLD LYRICS”
“Radical views that are outside the mainstream generally (but not always) are more reliable than the dominant view because they are more regularly challenged and tested against evidence. They do not get to float freely down the mainstream; they must swim against the current. They cannot rest on the orthodox power to foreclose dissent, and they are not supported by the unanimity of bias that passes for objectivity.”

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