"The telephone ringing gave me a dreadful start. I have never got used to this machine, the way it crouches so malevolently, ready to start clamouring for attention when you least expect it, like a mad baby."

“You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”

“That is the charm of the map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible.”

Source : Rosita Forbes (1935). “From Red Sea to Blue Nile: a thousand miles of Ethiopia”

“Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.”

“There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right.”

“Modeling is an incredible job for a girl if she approaches it with her head on her shoulders. You travel, you speak to people, and it opens your mind to different things.”

Source : "Exclusive: Anja Rubik on the Debut Issue of Her New Magazine, 25". Interview with Charlotte Cowles, www.thecut.com. June 29, 2012.

“Low unemployment numbers are clear indicators that Republican tax relief and economic policies are spurring growth and helping businesses hire new workers while providing American families with job security.”

“credulity is the sister of innocence ...”

Source : Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.250, Delphi Classics

“There are competing studies on how much crime drops or doesn't drop when there are strict rules on gun possession and sale. I don't think there's any question that New York City's very tough laws have reduced violence.”