"It signified nothing that the raw, male magnetism that emanated from him probably made compasses malfunction in his presence."

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Source : Gaelen Foley (2010). “My Wicked Marquess: Number 1 in series”, p.116, Hachette UK

Gaelen Foley

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“Be tough in the way a blade of grass is: rooted, willing to lean, and at peace with what is around it.”

Source : Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.192, Open Road Media
“I can't think of anything that would do more toward putting us back on the road to liberty and personal responsibility than for the average American, and for the news media, to come to the understanding that we are not a democracy, nor were we supposed to be.”
“Full emergency power to the engines. Ram the Blade ship.”
“Summer treads on heels of spring.”
“Lichtenberg ... held something of the following kind: one should neither affirm the existence of God nor deny it. ... It is not that he wished to leave certain perspectives open, nor to please everyone. It is rather that he was identifying himself, for his part, with a consciousness of self, of the world, and of others that was "strange" (the word is his) in a sense which is equally well destroyed by the rival explanations.”
“Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.”
“You know what I like about you? You have no sense. You sit here in my house, you can barely hold a spoon, and you're telling me 'no'. You'd pull on Death's whiskers if you could reach them.”
“How to you teach someone that a theatre comes about first as an idea, from an individual who has a philosophy and a passion? That a theatre's idea is its heart and individual soul? That the person who creates it must have the desire not only to create work, but also to create the conditions in which that work can live-and in which others can do it as well? How do you teach someone to want to be a midwife as well as a mother.”

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