"Anybody can be a halfway man, but the one who rises above this class is the one who keeps everlastingly pushing."

-- J. Ogden Armour

#Men Quotes #Class Quotes #Pushing Quotes

“When I'm singing a song, I picture somebody in particular. A lot of it is to a guy.”
“I'm all for women who get plastic surgery, because plastic surgery allows you to make your outer appearance resemble your inner appearance â€” fakeWe have shows like Extreme Make-Over: â€œI don't want to develop a personality, just cut my face! Stretch it and staple it. Now I'm happy, or at least I look like it.”
“The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.”
“Though films become more daring sexually, they are probably less sexy than they ever were. There haven't been any convincing love scenes or romances in the movies in a while. (Nobody even seems to neck in theaters any more.) ... when the mechanics and sadism quotients go up, the movie love interest goes dead, and the film just lies there, giving a certain amount of offense.”
“There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength.”

Source : Paul Bourget (1908). “Cosmopolis: Crowned by the French Academy”
“How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.”
“Talk of the imperial decay of your invalid port. Its gracious withdrawal from perfection, keeping a hint of former majesty withal, as it hovers between oblivion and the divine Untergang of infinite recession.”

Source : "One-Upmanship". Book by Stephen Potter, p. 143, 1952.
“My body is full of graves. A sepulcher is dug up, and a young girl comes out of it with her dusty hands in tears. A lady who is a young girl and an old girl at the same time feels the presence of the young girl. I feel that the 15-year-old me and the 50-year-old me come out of the sepulcher through an illegal excavation.”

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