"The matter of making christening robes for caterpillars, it is not a difficult one; the difficulty is to get a frisky caterpillar to keep still while one is putting on his christening robe. And then it is a problem to keep it on, after one does get it on. I do have much troubles with caterpillars crawling out of their christening robes after I do get them on."

-- Opal Whiteley

#Doe Quotes #Matter Quotes #Problem Quotes

“My poor, problematic feet don't let me wear anything much over a three- or four-inch heel.”
“The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.”
“[Malipiero's advice to Casanova.] If you wish your audience to cry, you must shed tears yourself, but if you wish to make them laugh you must contrive to look as serious as a judge.”
“Forget what you might have heard. There are no separate corps of angels for agnostics, atheists, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Mormons, Buddhists, Unitarians, Hindus, Druids, Shintoists, Wiccans, and so on. To put a spin on the old saying, it's okay if you don't believe in angels. We believe in you.”

Source : Cynthia Leitich Smith (2010). “Eternal”, p.91, Candlewick Press
“Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.”
“My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.”
“I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated.”
“Our belief systems are the glasses through which we each view the world and anticipate what is likely to unfold. Our behavior is always loyal with our beliefs.”

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