"Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit."

-- William Cowper

#Genius Quotes #Substitutes Quotes #Wit Quotes

“I almost let the best thing that ever happened to me slip away because I was hung up on ideas of what I â€˜shouldâ€™ want. Sometimes there is no â€˜should,â€™ thereâ€™s only a single chance to grab on to happiness.”
“I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.”
“It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance.”
“I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, toying iced glasses with a remote, faintly bitter expression, dancing deliciously, laughing a great deal, with wide, hurt eyes. Young things with a talent for living.”
“The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.”
“Christianity is not a mere set of opinions to be embraced by understanding. It is the work of the heart as well as the head.”

Source : Henry Kirke White (1829). “The complete works of Henry Kirke White: with an account of his life”, p.413
“Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity.”

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