"Actually, when John died, for the first time I thought - for the first time I realized how old I was, because I'd always thought of myself - when John was alive I saw myself through his eyes and he saw me as how old I was when we got married - and so when he died I kind of looked at myself in a different way. And this has kept on since then. The yellow corvette. When I gave up the yellow corvette, I literally gave up on it, I turned it in on a Volvo station wagon."

-- Joan Didion

#Eye Quotes #Yellow Quotes #Different Quotes

“Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.”
“I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss.”
“Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got”
“By 1914, the royal families of Europe were inbred to the point of pantomine. You feel about them as you do about koalas. Nothing so stupid has any right to exist on the planet. On the other hand, they are rather cute, and in grave danger of extinction due to their specialised needs.”

Source : "Last night's TV" by Nancy Banks-Smith, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2006.
“Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.”

Source : Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall
“Ultimately we're all responsible for putting our belief into action.”
“Life may more than once call upon you to prove Who You Are by demonstrating an aspect of Who You Are Not.”
“I'm slamming n***as like Shaquille, s**t is real When it's time to eat a meal, I rob and steal”

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