"[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?"

-- Queen Elizabeth II

#Sitting Quotes #Portraits Quotes #Teeth Quotes

“Surrender to life today. Don't fight anything. Just enjoy the flow.”
“Philosophy may raise us above grandeur, but nothing can elevate us above the ennui which accompanies it.”
“We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.”

Source : Letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992.
“Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.”

Source : George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.257, Cosimo, Inc.
“I write books for teenagers because I vividly remember what it felt like to be a teen facing everyday and epic dangers. I don't write to protect them. It's far too late for that. I write to give them weapons-in the form of words and ideas-that will help them fight their monsters. I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.”
“I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.”
“Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.”
“I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them because it's taught me to appreciate all the ups.”

Source : FaceBook post by Patti LaBelle from Sep 19, 2012

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