"Covers, so many covers, so many different, delectable pictures, and although, metaphorically speaking, it is the thing I hate most, when it comes to literature I always judge books by their covers. First the cover will catch my eye, then I read the back of the book, and then finally the first page."

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Source : Jane Green (2000). “Jemima J: A Novel”, p.67, Broadway Books

Jane Green

#Hate Quotes #Book Quotes #Eye Quotes

“On the day after 9/11, I walking through the smoke and the smells of New York. There were knots of policemen everywhere. As I went past one officer, he called out: "Hi, Magneto." That's an indication of X-Men's extraordinary reach.”
“I never went to drama school. I went straight into the theater. We had the most extraordinary voice teacher. I worked with her when I was starting out in my career. How to place my voice from a very relaxed position was all wonderfully reminiscent of going back to the basics. But I always like to do that with any role that I do, to dismantle it and put it all back together again.”
“Yves Saint Laurent gave women power, Chanel liberated them and when I joined Lanvin, I thought 'what do I bring to women? One day, I received an SMS from a friend in New York - she was in a taxi on the way to court to face her arsehole ex-husband, and she said to me 'Alber, I am wearing a Lanvin dress, and I feel so protected.' That to me was the biggest compliment I ever received. To have a 500 gram piece of silk make her feel protected - that made me very happy indeed.”
“The purpose of the pistol is to stop a fight that somebody else has started, almost always at very short range.”
“The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.”

Source : George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.257, Cosimo, Inc.
“Your father is the first person to tell me that I am lovely who seemed to mean it. The only people who've told me that before were ones who think they're supposed to flatter a princess' 'I think you're lovely,' murmured Eadric. 'Only because you love me,' I said. 'Hmm,' he said, kissing me before I could say anything else.”

Source : E.D. Baker (2008). “Once Upon a Curse”, p.206, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“The books we read change over the years as new books come out and they change over the grades. Books we are reading in fifth and sixth grade now may have been seventh and eighth grade books in the past, or the other way around.”
“Unless you are very rich and very eccentric, you will not enjoy the luxury of a computer in your own home.”

Source : Edward Yourdon (1975). “Techniques of program structure and design”, Prentice Hall

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