"Taste is the feminine of genius."

-- Lord Edward FitzGerald

#Genius Quotes #Taste Quotes #Feminine Quotes

“I'm famous, so I can't, like, really walk around in malls and stuff like that. I don't really have as much privacy.”
“Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.”
“The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.”
“Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.”
“I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.”

Source : Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.221, A&C Black
“No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.”
“Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue.”
“He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.”

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