"Women to whom one has just been introduced think that it breaks the ice if they scream, 'Goodness, you're tall!' How would they like it if I broke the ice first, by screaming 'Goodness, what thick ankles!' or 'Goodness, what a bust!"

-- Tyrone Guthrie

#Thinking Quotes #Ice Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Yesterday one has wished, to-day one attains the madly longed-for object, and to-morrow one will blush to think that one ever desired it.”

Source : Ivan Goncharov (2015). “Oblomov”, p.102, Sheba Blake Publishing
“We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.”
“Nothing can stop an artist from creating.”
“If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.”
“There's no such thing as an easy stage.”
“Mao is the only real Marxist at the leadership level in the post-Marx period.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“The conflict between the creatures of Native Lore and the immigration of the European preternatural hosts is hinted at in 'Blood Bound' and reflects the conflicts between the human immigrants and the Indian people who were already here.”
“To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit. There is no other way to elude apathy, or escape discontent; none other to guard the temper from that quarrel with itself, which ultimately ends in quarreling with all mankind.”

Source : Fanny Burney (1972). “Camilla: or, A picture of youth”

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