"It seemed to him a very Edinburgh thing. Welcoming, but not very."

-- Ian Rankin

#Edinburgh Quotes #Welcome Quotes

“I'm from a big family. I've got 10 nieces and nephews.”

Source : "Cheryl Cole: 'I've dined with Prince Charles, but I've also sat in a crack den'" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2012.
“What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the supreme irony of it all, never before have musicians tried so hard to communicate with their audience, and never before has that communication been so deceiving. Music now seems hardly more than a somewhat clumsy excuse for the self-glorification of musicians and the growth of a new industrial sector.”

Source : "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, Joseph Darby, 1996.
“Apre' s le rare bonheur de trouver une compagne qui nous soit bien assortie, l'e tat le moins malheureux de la vie est sans doute de vivre seul. After the rare happiness of finding a companion with whom we are well matched, the least unpleasant state of life is without doubt to live alone.”

Source : 1788 Paul et Virginie.
“I donâ€™t know what the future of my career holds, but I know that whatever is over the horizon, the road Iâ€™ve traveled to get here is like those Interstates in Texas: everything can look the same, and it can feel like youâ€™re not going anywhere, until you suddenly get where youâ€™re going and realize that youâ€™ve been traveling for a long time.”
“It's all in her walk, a cartoon swagger. Part Jayne Mansfield, part Muhammad Ali. Men never know if it's an invitation upstairs or an invitation outside.”

Source : Emma Forrest (2014). “Namedropper”, p.17, Bloomsbury Publishing
“There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.”
“The spells are made up. I have met people who assure me, very seriously, that they are trying to do them, and I can assure them, just as seriously, that they donâ€™t work.”
“Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.”

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