"It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity - but when you see people at their work they elicit respect, whether it's a mechanic, a stonemason or an accountant."

-- Alain de Botton

#Beach Quotes #Hate Quotes #Silly Quotes

“The culture of celebrity has become insane. It's all based on fantasy, and I find it creepy and disturbing.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Don't worry about your rating, work on your playing strength and your rating will follow.”
“Most of us are animal lovers. We insist that we love all animals equally - the hamster, the weasel, and the zebra - but if pressed, we will admit to being either a cat person or a dog person.”

Source : Nicole Hollander (2002). “Cats with Attitude: Two Volumes in One Collection : Everything Here is Mine · My Cat's Not Fat, He's Just Big-boned”, Gramercy
“I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer.”
“He has been disassembled by her. And if she has brought him to this, what has he brought her to?”
“Proliferation of nuclear weapons to terrorist organisations is far more dangerous than proliferation of nuclear weapons to states, even states like North Korea.”
“Syria is the proud heir of an ancient civilization that has a unique spectrum of minorities that encompasses Muslims and Christians of various denominations. There are at least ten such ethnic and religious groups.”

Source : "Syria: Is the World Waiting for Genocide?" by Ahmed Zewail, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 28, 2012.
“For a lot of arcane shipping reasons, new comics, even digital ones, have a long history of only being released on Wednesdays.”

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