"Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two greatest faults of style. Obscurity of expression generally springs from confusion of ideas; and the same wish to dazzle, at any cost, which produces affectation in the manner of a writer, is likely to produce sophistry in his reasonings."

-- Thomas B. Macaulay

#Spring Quotes #Expression Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“The horse is flesh and blood on a noble scale”
“The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.”

Source : Fannie Flagg (1999). “Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!”, Random House LLC
“In the silence of LOVE you will find the Spark of LIFE.”
“This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.”
“[I have a] way of making narrative sculpture, where first you make a text and out of that text you make objects. [...] I start with a story and then I make sculpture from that story, it's just that the stories become more and more elaborate.”

Source : "A Natural Love Story: Matthew Barney Talks About 'Drawing Restraint 9'" by Eugene Hernandez, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2006.
“Im not a redneck, Im from Texas.”
“I'm a small-town girl, and it'll never be beaten out of me.”
“The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.”

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