"If it were customary to send little girls to school and teach them the same subjects as are taught to boys, they would learn just as fully and would understand the subtleties of all arts and sciences."

-- Christine de Pizan

#Girl Quotes #Art Quotes #School Quotes

“When a guy says,'I'll call you,' and he doesn't say when-that means he won't call you." Kit pulled his phone out of his pocket and pressed a couple buttons. My phone vibrated in my pocket. I fished it out, smiling. "Madness," Kit whispered softly into his phone. "I meant I'd call you. This is me calling you.”
“I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time. I admire her great courage in leaving so much unsaid and asking the reader to really engage her brain.”
“Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion.”
“Why do you like books so much?â€ he asked. Miles answered without taking his face away from the window. â€œYou never know what youâ€™ll learn when you open one. And if itâ€™s a story, you sort of fall into it. Then you live there for a while, instead of, you know, living here.”
“Nora: "How do you feel?" Nick: "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober.”

Source : "The Thin Man". Book by Dashiell Hammett, 1929.
“If someone says, 'Hey, I ran 100 miles this week. How far did you run?' ignore him! What the hell difference does it make?.... The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles.”
“I started as a stand-up comedian. I wanted to be Carol Burnett when I was growing up.”
“It is not truth, justice, liberty, that men seek; they seek only themselves. - And oh, that they knew how to seek themselves aright!”

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