"You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave."

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Source : Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.198, Broadway Books

Billie Holiday

#Body Quotes #Littles Quotes #Human Nature Quotes

“Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet.”

Source : 'The Man of Mode' (1676) act 4, sc. 1
“My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.”
“The soul of the newly born baby is marked for life by the pattern of the stars at the moment it comes into the world, unconsciously remembers it, and remains sensitive to the return of configurations of a similar kind.”
“The student ends up ***** after time with the teacher, hanging on her every word, and forgetting that this is about him or her, the student, not the teacher.”
“It seems that in almost all societies, the attitudes that people have to language change is basically the same. People everywhere tend to say that the older form of a language is in some sense 'better' than the form that is being used today.”

Source : Terry Crowley, Claire Bowern (2010). “An Introduction to Historical Linguistics”, p.18, Oxford University Press
“When Father smiled, it was like the sun coming out, and spring and summer in your heart.”
“You canâ€™t be a non-conformist if you donâ€™t wear the proper uniform.”
“When you're playing a man, you can look tired and horrible and you still look okay. As a woman, if you're tired, it's terrible. It was such a luxury not having to worry about that.”

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