"[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn't a servant because they don't slam doors."

-- Queen Elizabeth II

#Doors Quotes #Royalty Quotes #Bedroom Quotes

“In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.”

Source : George Bancroft (1875). “History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American Continent”, p.59
“I would love to live in India or in the South of France, but Roger Vivier doesn't have offices yet in New Delhi or Jaipur.”
“The memory is like orbiting twin stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed.”
“The things you don't have control over, you don't worry about. I have control over my attitude, my perception, how I do things, and you do the very best job you can. Other people have control over other things and you let them do their jobs.”
“Does it bother me that I'm attached to 'Three's Company' 30 years after? Not at all. All we were trying to do was be funny. How can I complain? That's all I wanted to do.”
“Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.”
“The bones of the skeleton which support the body can become the bars of the cage which imprison the spirit.”
“Any photographer worth his/her salt - that is, any photographer of professional caliber, in control of the craft, regardless of imagistic bent - can make virtually anything look good. Which means, of course, that she or he can make virtually anything look bad - or look just about any way at all. After all, that is the real work of photography: making things look, deciding how a thing is to appear in the image.”

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