"It's my uniform. Everyone in my company wears it." "It's hideous." Rose felt her hackles rise. The neon green uniform was hideous, but she didn't appreciate him pointing it out. She opened her mouth. "Yet despite it, you look lovely," he said. "Flattery will get you nowhere," she told him. "It's not flattery," he said coldly. "Flattery requires exaggeration. I'm merely stating a fact. You're a beautiful woman wearing an ugly sack of unnatural color."

-- Ilona Andrews

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“Sometimes I think there are two kinds of people - the autobiographists and the biographists.”
“The talents lost--the moments run To waste--the sins of act, of thought, Ten thousand deeds of folly done, And countless virtues cherish'd not.”

Source : Sir John Bowring (1824). “Matins and vespers: with hymns and occasional devotional pieces”, p.48
“My job, one of them, in science, was to find the gods inside of us.”
“I think I'm a lot happier than people might think from listening to my songs.”
“You are equally important to me, and I love you all.”
“Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.”

Source : "Nigeria: The Shock of Reality". allafrica.com. August 24, 2009.
“Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.”
“If I'm feeling something, I know if it's a song, or if it's a little story that I'm going to write, or if it's a painting or play. I might sit down and write a play.”

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