"A wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth."

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Source : Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.172

Kate Chopin

#Earth Quotes #Spectacles Quotes

“Well, method is, it seems to me, a natural growth out of a need, and from a need the modern artist has found new ways of expressing the world about him. I happen to find ways that are different from the usual techniques, which seems a little strange at the moment, but I don't think there's anything very different about it. I paint on the floor and this isn't unusual - the Orientals did that.”
“When you win you eat better, sleep better and your beer tastes better. And your wife looks like Gina Lollobrigida.”
“Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity”
“For although there is not a single aspect of European growth in which the decisive influence of Islamic culture is not traceable, nowhere is it so clear and momentous as in the genesis of that power which constitutes the permanent distinctive force of the modern world, and the supreme source of its victory, natural science and the scientific spirit.”
“Some of these guys wear beards to make them look intimidating, but they don't look so tough when they have to deliver the ball. Their abilities and their attitudes don't back up their beards.”

Source : "You Let Some GIRL Beat You?: The Story of Ann Meyers Drysdale". Book by Ann Meyers Drysdale, p. 24, 2012.
“It's tough to describe my dream girl”
“Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.”
“The usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world.”

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