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“Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.”
Source : Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.65, BookBaby
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“You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it? There are many formulas. One year for every year you dated. Two years for every year you dated. It's just a matter of will power: The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.”
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“This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.”
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“He who thinks all mankind is vile is a pessimist who mistakes his introspection for observation; he looks into his own heart and thinks he sees the world.”
Source : William George Jordan (1903). “Great truths”
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“Where there's more of singing and less of sighing, Where there's more of giving and less of buying, And a man makes friends without half trying That's where the West begins.”
Source : Estelle Philleo, Arthur Chapman (1920). “Out where the West Begins”
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“I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.”
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“Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.”
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“The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.”
