"Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself."

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Source : Richard Peck (2000). “A Long Way From Chicago: A Novel in Stories”, p.11, Penguin

Richard Peck

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“In the next couple of years, part of every film's process is going to be to adjust the images. And it'll be to change the color of an actor's tie or change the little smirky thing he's doing with his mouth. Or you can put in more clouds or move the tree a little bit.”
“You and I were created by God to be so much more than normalâ€¦Following the crowd is not a winning approach to life. In the end itâ€™s a loserâ€™s game, because we never become who God created us to be by trying to be like everybody else.”

Source : Tim Tebow, Nathan Whitaker (2011). “Through My Eyes”, p.16, Harper Collins
“Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.”
“The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.”
“I like to just see what's going on at a certain location and see what there is to do. If it looks and sounds like I'm able to have fun there, then I'm all for it.”
“The Germans are indeed the economically and politically strongest power in Europe. But their superiority does not equal the past and present superiority of the Americans.”

Source : Source: uk.businessinsider.com
“You see the pictures in the paper today of John Kerry windsurfing? He's at his home in Nantucket this week, doing his favorite thing, windsurfing. Even his hobby depends on which way the wind blows.”
“I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.”

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