"I'm all alone. There has been no man in my life for several months now and although it would be nice to have a boyfriend, I can't just settle for anybody. The fact is I'm choosy, but mainly about a man's character. He has to be interesting, funny and clever. I don't even mind if he's not very good-looking."

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Source : "Agyness Deyn and Giovanni Ribisi Are Married After Just Months of Dating!" by Kim Fusaro, www.glamour.com. June 21, 2012.

Agyness Deyn

#Clever Quotes #Nice Quotes #Character Quotes

“There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.”

Source : Mary Renault (2013). “The Charioteer: A Virago Modern Classic”, p.71, Hachette UK
“If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.”
“Hair is the most delicate and lasting of our materials, and survives us, like love. It is so light, so gentle; so escaping from the idea of death, that, with a lock of hair belonging to a child or friend, we may almost look up to heaven and compare notes with the angelic nature,--may almost say, "I have a piece of thee here not unworthy of thy being now.”
“Be original, stop pretending to be someone you are not, be your own light in this world.”
“I make no apologies for any inconsistencies or contradictions in my essays. Those who do not change their minds in the course of a decade have probably stopped thinking all together. The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him wise forever.”
“What's important is to remain human.”
“Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.”
“Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box.”

Source : "Under age gun: when less time can mean better problem-solving" by Adam Savage, www.wired.com. February 11, 2013.

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