"Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something, and that something is to a large extent outside the control of our conscious minds."

-- James Laver

#Mean Quotes #Clothes Quotes #Mind Quotes

“There were a number of particularly delightful incidents. There is, for example, the physicist who introduced me to one of my favorite laws, which he described as Murphys law or the fourth law of thermodynamics (actually there were only three last I heard) which states: If anything can go wrong it will.”
“Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world and all of us against the infidel.”

Source : "The Haj". Book by Leon Uris, 1984.
“Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.”

Source : Horace Walpole, Peter Cunningham (1857). “The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford”, p.371
“I'm horrible at quoting movies! Even my very favorites are not easily recalled or programmed to memory. When people start movie quoting around me, I'm that person who just smiles and then looks up the reference later.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.”
“I don't like to have to pan for gold when I read.”
“Heaven is laying in my sweet baby's arms, hell is when my baby's not here.”
“When we say no, or when we follow our dreams or true callings - people might be disappointed in our choices. Allowing people their disappointments sets us free.”

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