"A great idea should always be left to steep like loose tea leaves in a teapot for a while to make sure that the tea will be strong enough and that the idea truly is a great one."

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Source : Phoebe Stone (2012). “The Romeo and Juliet Code”, p.90, Scholastic Inc.

Phoebe Stone

#Strong Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Tea Quotes

“I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else.”
“In the movies I've done for Sony, they've never given me quadrant specific notes ever. They say "Keep making it. Just make the movie you want to do." Especially in a comedy because comedy is so tone specific.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!”
“Forgiving other people who have wronged us or hurt us or embarrassed us is not easy. In fact, sometimes it seems impossible. But that is what God did for us and what He asks us to do for others.”

Source : Korie Robertson, Chrys Howard (2014). “Faith Commander: Living Five Values from the Parables of Jesus”, p.17, Zondervan
“The only phrase I've ever disliked is, 'Why, we've always done it that way.' I always tell young people, 'Go ahead and do it. You can always apologize later.'”
“There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never embraced something called social Darwinism. It didn't exist.”
“Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.”
“Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience.”

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