"English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities."

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Elspeth Huxley

#Tables Quotes #Dinner Quotes #Might Quotes

“For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.”
“I really want women to throw their shoulders back and stand up straight and use their big girl voices and not feel like they're compromising their femininity to be strong and smart.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It's a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Today, you've got a decision to make. You're gonna get better or you're gonna get worse, but you're not gonna stay the same. Which will it be?”
“Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.”
“Snow always inspires such awe in me. Just consider one tiny snowflake alone, so delicate, so fragile, so ethereal. And yet, let a billion of them come together through the majestic force of nature, they can screw up a whole city.”
“On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules and probability.”

Source : Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno (2002). “Dialectic of Enlightenment”, p.3, Stanford University Press
“Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.”

Source : "Alex Karras obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.

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