"Frenchwomen could not dress like Englishwomen without conviction of sin."

-- Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#Dresses Quotes #Sin Quotes #Conviction Quotes

“Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that serious and conscientious men treat them as existing things brings them a step closer to existence and to the possibility of being born.”
“I think that boxing is actually not as dangerous as the politics. In boxing, you're gonna get a bloody nose or a black eye. In politics you can obviously get either dioxin in the food or bullet in the head.”
“I am more interested in what moves people, than how they move.”
“But I don't want to have to stop feeling. I really think I'd rather die than stop feeling.”
“Hard to believe that so nearby, just across the Channel, such atrocities could still occur in their supposedly civilized world, that one could wake up one morning and find oneself bereft of brothers, parents, friends, all with the slice of an ax.”

Source : Lauren Willig (2010). “The Mischief of the Mistletoe: A Pink Carnation Christmas”, p.65, Penguin
“Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.”
“Before I got to Juilliard I remember that I had learned the first few bars to all the Sachse etudes in several different keys because I knew what was coming. So in the first year he was throwing these Sachse etudes at me and I would knock off the first eight bars and fly right through it. He would say, 'Alright, that's good enough.' But, in my third year, he said 'Get out the Sachse book.' I couldn't understand why. So I pull it out and he said, 'Here, start in the middle.' I was in trouble! He said, 'Hey Balm, I took you for a guy who knows how to transpose-you're nothing but a bugler!'”
“My family took me to church when I was like 4 years old, and I had to be in a pageant, and I was playing Jesus.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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