"Christopher discovered that you dealt with obnoxious masters and most older boys the way you dealt with governesses: you quite politely told them the truth in the way they wanted to hear it, so that they thought they had won and left you in peace."

-- Diana Wynne Jones

#Boys Quotes #Way Quotes #Masters Quotes

“The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.”

Source : Pierre Bourdieu (1977). “Equisse D'une Théorie de la Pratique”, p.188, Cambridge University Press
“You are a trophy of God's grace. He has future accomplishments with your name written on them.”
“I hate to say it because I think people are risk averse these days more than ever. Before they even pick up the phone, they know what the picture's going to be. So there's a certain comfort in that, a certain security that they can lay out the cover of the magazine and kind of know what it's going to be.”

Source : Source: aphotoeditor.com
“You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all started, and that's where it all come from - that's where I learned to keep rhythm - in church”
“Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.”
“He always loved her because of, not in sprite of, her flaws.”
“Jump way back to one time, Evie and me did this fashion shoot in a junk yard, in a slaughterhouse, in a mortuary. We'd go anywhere to look good by comparison, and what I realize is mostly what I hate about Evie is the fact that she's so vain and stupid and needy. But what I hate most is how she's just like me. What I really hate is me so I hate pretty much everybody.”
“Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.”

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