"You forgot to cough!â€ he said. â€œSorry.â€ She coughed. â€œYour sneakiness is dangerous. Next time that chisel will lodge itself in my head.â€ â€œNow, Peder, thereâ€™s plenty of stone around here for carving. No need to practice on your own face.â€ He stroked his chin. â€œYouâ€™re right, my jaw is already chiseled to perfection.â€ She agreed, but she felt too silly to say so aloud."

-- Shannon Hale

#Sorry Quotes #Silly Quotes #Practice Quotes

“God has given us our talents, not to copy the talents of others, but rather to use our brains and imagination in order to obtain the revelation of true beauty.”

Source : M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Donald L. Stover, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (1981). “The art of Louis Comfort Tiffany: an exhibition”
“It's important that I get time to run, to just go for a jog for about 30 minutes. It helps with my voice, but it also kind of gives me a little bit of time to myself - and you get to see a city.”
“Good companies will meet needs; great companies will create markets.”

Source : "The 75 Greatest Management Decisions Ever Made". Book by Stuart Crainer, 2002.
“It's a pretty blokey magazine [Bacon Busters, 'Australia's only magazine dedicated to pig hunting'], but they have women in it too. There's a 'Boars and Babes' section: women in bikinis sitting on big old pigs.”
“The standard dreaming of a society has to be listened to.”

Source : Hortense Calisher (2013). “Standard Dreaming: A Novella”, p.43, Open Road Media
“Instead of wondering WHY this is happening to you, consider why this is happening to YOU.”
“If businesses don't know from state to state what the requirements are for taxes, they have to waste a lot of money on accountants and lawyers before deciding to expand their business into the state next door.”
“If you enter the dark side of life, and come through it, you emerge with more strength and passion.”

Source : FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Feb 24, 2017

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