"[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed."

-- Blaise Pascal

#Beauty Quotes #Vanity Quotes #Noses Quotes

“Anybody can quit. Only a real champion and a person of character and strength can keep going and refuse to give up.”

Source : FaceBook post by Sadie Robertson from Mar 20, 2016
“Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.”

Source : Robert K. Merton (1973). “The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations”, p.265, University of Chicago Press
“An award does not change the quality of a book.”

Source : Caldecott Medal acceptance speech for The Polar Express, polarexpress.com. 1986.
“One function of the librarian, as he saw it, was to blunt the edge of these differences and to provide a means whereby the rich and poor could live happily side by side. The public library was a great leveler, supplying a literature by which the ordinary man could experience some of the pleasures of the rich, and providing a common ground where employer and employee could meet on equal terms.”
“There are reasons, and then there are excuses.”
“At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ideas.”

Source : "Paperback Q&A: Ian Rankin on The Impossible Dead". www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2012.
“The Time that Remains is a way of interpreting a certain ambience or emotion. These are the stories that my father told me over the course of fifteen or twenty years. I used to listen to him. From the cowardly part of my character, I'm always in fear of not telling the right story. I'm not interested in making epics.”
“I'm The Miz and I'm awesome!”

Source : "WWE superstar The Miz talks about SummerSlam and his new movie". Interview with Hannah Mitchell, articles.latimes.com. August 16, 2012.

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