"I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company."

-- Anita Loos

#Style Quotes #Gowns Quotes #Sawdust Quotes

“Your life and my life have turned out, and once you get that, life goes on from a position of having turned out. That's called playing the game from win”
“People in my hometown seldom called me piao liang, [beautiful] because my smaller eyes were a far cry from the wide irises of the most beloved television actresses.”
“Don't think that any one technique is the end. there is no end. There is no perfect technique. Just when you think you've got them, you're dead because you didn't.”
“Death's power is limited -- It cannot eradicate memories Or slay love It cannot destroy even a threadbare faith Or permanently hobble the smallest hope in God It cannot permeate the soul And it cannot cripple the spirit It merely separates us for a while That is the only power death can claim --No more”

Source : Donna VanLiere (2008). “The Christmas Shoes”, p.121, Macmillan
“We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.”
“Nature is a big influence on my work. That's where the cosmic element comes in, an awareness of the relevance of what we do as a species, why we do it, and its implications.”
“I think in many ways, I'm sort of a blank canvas, because in many ways, I'm just observing the world and the people around me and their characters and letting them kind of explode off me and to find out why they're doing what they're doing. But then every once in awhile, I get to take on a whole new character.”

Source : Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2010.
“I will never have a photograph of her to carry around in my pocket. I will never have a letter in her handwriting, or a scrap-book of everything we've done. I will never share an apartment with her in the city. I will never know if we are listening to the same song at the same time. We will not grow old together. I will not be the person she calls when she's in trouble. She will not be the person I call when I have stories to tell. I will never be able to keep anything she's given to me.”

Source : David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.193, Egmont UK

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