"Sometimes, it is not the kings and queen who make for the most fascinating history but the shadowy souls who happen to be in the right place at the right time."

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Source : Michelle Moran (2011). “Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution”, p.440, Broadway Books

Michelle Moran

#Queens Quotes #Kings Quotes #Soul Quotes

“I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.”

Source : Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's
“You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.”

Source : Cab Calloway, Bryant Rollins (1976). “Of Minnie the Moocher and Me”, New York : Thomas J. Crowell Company
“How could I think the brief years were enough To prove the reality of endless love?”

Source : Delmore Schwartz (1967). “Selected Poems (1938-1958): Summer Knowledge”, p.200, New Directions Publishing
“I am a big fan of Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller, who have carved a niche for themselves. I think doing different kind of films gives you longevity and the ability to set yourself apart.”
“And now for the vapor-bath: on a framework of three sticks, meeting at the top, they stretch pieces of woolen cloth, taking care to get the joints as perfect as they can, and inside this little tent they put a dish with red-hot stones in it. Then they take some hemp seed, creep into the tent, and throw the seed on to the hot stones. At once it begins to smoke, giving off a vapor unsurpassed by any vapor-bath one could find in Greece. The Sythians enjoy it so much that they howl with pleasure. This is their substitute for an ordinary bath in water, which they never use.”
“That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain.”
“... you just turned down the woman who put a marshmallow duck in your hot chocolate. I hope you feel like a real ***** now.”
“If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.”

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