"No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the resurrection and the life."

-- Joyce Cary

#Bored Quotes #Doubt Quotes #Treasure Quotes

“When I talk to young girls about clothes, I tell them to show a lot of brains.”
“I once started a detective story to make moneyÂ—but I couldn't get the murder to take place! At the end of three chapters I was still describing the characters and the milieu, so I thought, this is not going to work. No corpse!”
“I've never felt that I've had some great fashion sense of my own - I tend to wear what my wife tells me to wear.”

Source : "Coco’s Boy Toy: Q&A With Alessandro Nivola". Interview with Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, wwd.com. September 18, 2009.
“You know if you walked around the world, your hat would travel thirty-one feet farther than your shoes?”
“Oh! none are so absorb'd, as not to feel Sweet thoughts like music coming o'er the mind: When prayer, the purest incense of a soul, Hath risen to the throne of heaven, the heart Is mellow'd, and the shadows that becloud Our state of darken'd being, glide away;...”

Source : Robert Montgomery (1829). “A universal prayer ; Death ; A vision of heaven ; and A vision of hell”, p.144
“I'm just another guy who thinks he's smarter than he is, in a long line of them.”
“I was from such a large family that when I first met my wife, I told her: 'You can go work outside of the house and I'll stay home and continue making my cartoon strips. Maybe I'll make some commercials nearby, you know I'll do anything locally, but I would love to just stay at home and raise the kids like I did when I was growing up.'”
“A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.”

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