"Oh, what a void there is in things."

-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

“When I think of musical geniuses, I think of Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and Prince. That's who comes to mind.”
“My dad's so likeable, you wouldn't feel in competition with him. If any boyfriends have ever felt that, they're long gone.”
“I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!”
“There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.”
“Beauty is something that is hard to debate. Every man thinks his ideal the best. But the wittiest woman rise to the top of this structure, conventional beauty often taking a back seat to a woman possessed of a clever tongue.”
“I suppose middle-aged love is interesting for middle-aged people.”
“When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.”

Source : "Quotation Finder". Book by Everett Dirksen and Herbert V. Prochnow, p. 55, 1971.
“No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.”

Source : Ann Dumas, Edgar Degas (1996). “Degas As a Collector”

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