"Santa Barbara people are conservative-not like in L.A., where everybody wears rhinestones on their glasses to show that they own an airplane factory."

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S. J. Perelman

#Airplane Quotes #Glasses Quotes #Cities Quotes

“Sentences I never thought I would write. (1) That John Prescott certainly has a way with the ladies. (2) Give it to Steve McClaren, he seems like the man for the England job. (3) Peter Crouch is the man to replace Rooney.”
“All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.”

Source : Edmund Burke (1834). “The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, and Portrait After Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.403
“If you say youâ€™re going to trust your man, then trust your man. Donâ€™t revoke that privilege when he needs it most.”
“Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally.”
“Honest change? Honest? Has someone altered the definition of the word while my back was turned, or have you recently developed a sense of humor?”

Source : Ellen Kushner (2006). “The Privilege of the Sword”, p.109, Spectra
“No one ever gets too big to make mistakes. The secret is that the big man is greater than his mistakes, because he rises right out of them and passes beyond them.”
“Home, the idea of home, is my principal purpose. If people have bought a house as an investment or chosen the furniture because they'll be able to sell it for more, you can tell in two minutes. You know, our parents didn't buy a house as an investment. They bought it as a place to bring you up, to give you roots.”
“Technology favors horrible people.”

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