"The grey is certainly inspired by the photo-paintings, and, of course, it's related to the fact that I think grey is an important colour - the ideal colour for indifference, fence-sitting, keeping quiet, despair. In other words, for states of being and situations that affect one, and for which one would like to find a visual expression."

-- Gerhard Richter

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“The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.”
“Brighidâ€™s eyes flashed with a blue flame, and I wondered if she had learned to do that just so she could compete with the Morriganâ€™s red flashes. Maybe I should try to figure out how to make my eyes flash green so I could freak out the baristas at Starbucks. â€œNo, you foolish mortal,â€ Iâ€™d say as my eyes glowed, â€œI ordered a nonfat latte.”
“Dating is about grand romantic gestures that mean little over the long term. Marriage is about small acts of kindness that bond you over a lifetime.”

Source : Lori Gottlieb (2010). “Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough”, p.166, Penguin
“Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.”
“When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in his energy, recognize the scent of his skin. You see only the essence of the person,not the shell. That's why you can't fall in love with beauty. You can lust after it, be infatuated by it, want to own it. You can love it with your eyes and body but not your heart. And that's why, when you really connect with a person's inner self, any physical imperfections disappear, become irrelevant.”

Source : Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.259, Crown
“Just looking at them I grow greedy, as if they were freshly baked loaves waiting on their shelves to be broken open--that one and that--and I make my choice in a mood of exalted luck, browsing among them like a cow in sweetest pasture. For life is continuous as long as they wait to be read--these inked paths opening into the future, page after page, every book its own receding horizon. And I hold them, one in each hand, a curious ballast weighing me here to earth.”
“If the desires are not controlled now, later they will control you.”
“A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.”

Source : "Sunset Boulevard", www.imdb.com. 1950.

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