"I'm jealous of your hooks," Kevin replied. "Having no hands is better than having two equally strong hands." Don't be ridiculous," one of the white-faced women replied. "Having a white face is worse than both of your situations." But you have a white face because you put makeup on," Colette said, as Sunny climbed back out of the trunk and knelt down in the snow. "You're putting powder on your face right now."

-- Daniel Handler

#Strong Quotes #Jealous Quotes #Makeup Quotes

“My agent said that I was one of the top three busiest people in the country.”
“Softening what is rigid in our hearts...”
“Boredom is why God invented books.”

Source : Julie Schumacher (2012). “The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls”, p.119, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
“You don't need people's opinion on a fact.”

Source : "John Oliver & Bill Nye School Climate Change Skeptics On ‘Last Week Tonight’" by Katherine Fung, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 12, 2014.
“Photography is unlike any other art form. In the other arts there is always a continuous interplay between the artist and his art. He has the painting or sculpture before him. What we have tried to do is to provide a medium for "artistic expression" to anyone with only a reasonable amount of time. By giving him a camera system with which he need only control his selection of focus, composition and lighting, we free him to select the moment and to criticize immediately what he has done. We enable him to see what else he wants to do on the basis of what he has just learned.”
“Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.”
“Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings.”
“I have said it often and I will say it again: I believe you learn to read when you are young, then read to learn for the rest of your life.”

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