"To see you naked is to recall the Earth."

-- Federico Garcia Lorca

#Naked Quotes #Earth Quotes #Clothings Quotes

“The hotel was once where things coalesced, where you could meet both townspeople and travelers. Not so in a motel. No matter how you build it, the motel remains the haunt of the quick and dirty, where the only locals are Chamber of Commerce boys every fourth Thursday. Who ever heard the returning traveler exclaim over one of the great motels of the world he stayed in? Motels can be big, but never grand.”
“Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!”

Source : As quoted in "An Encyclopedia of Quotations about Music" (1981) by Nat Shapiro, p. 115, August 3, 1867.
“ELANTRIS is a new BEN HUR for the fantasy genre, with a sweeping, epic storyline and closely personal characters.”
“No one can degrade us except ourselves.”
“Take the risk and do whatever you can do and try not to get caught. If you do get caught, do it again.”
“He was the strangest of all our national sports idols. But not even his disagreeable character could destroy the image of his greatness as a ballplayer. Ty Cobb was the best. That seemed to be all he wanted.”
“Emily Post says that talking about oneself isn't very polite.' 'I'm sure Miss Post is perfectly correct, but that doesn't seem to stop the rest of us.”

Source : Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility”, p.34, Hachette UK
“The Andrew Principle is when the incompetence of an organization exceeds the incompetence of certain individuals within that organization, thereby allowing their promotion within said organization.”

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