"And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil. You can't think you know her story, because she will confound you over and over again. She may be an engineer or a diplomat or a doctor. Or she may be an unbelievable babe with bleached hair down to her waist."

-- Geraldine Brooks

#Thinking Quotes #Doctors Quotes #Hair Quotes

“Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.”

Source : "'Why Not Have Our Own World?' Interview with Andrzej Wajda". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. 2005.
“My art side is free and there are no strings attached.”
“You're going to have an upset stomach. If you eat spicy stiff because you're upset, then you'll get diarrhea.”
“There are half hours that dilate to the importance of centuries.”

Source : Mary Hartwell Catherwood (2012). “Lazarre”, p.105, tredition
“the principles of political economy have elevated the working class above the place they ever filled before.”

Source : Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.373
“Just us as people, we're different around different people and in different environments.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.”
“An anarchist is like an undercover agent who plays the game of Reason in order to undercut the authority of Reason (Truth, Honesty, Justice and so on).”

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