"Instead of disbursing her annual millions for these dye stuffs, England will, beyond question, at no distant day become herself the greatest coloring producing country in the world; nay, by the very strangest of revolutions she may ere long send her coal-derived blues to indigo-growing India, her tar-distilled crimson to cochineal-producing Mexico, and her fossil substitutes for quercitron and safflower to China, Japan and the other countries whence these articles are now derived."

-- August Wilhelm von Hofmann

#Country Quotes #Blue Quotes #Japan Quotes

“I said to my husband, 'Why don't you call out my name when we're making love?' He said, 'I don't want to wake you up.'”

Source : "Joan Rivers dies: Celebrate comedian's life with her 80 bitchiest putdowns and funniest one-liners" by Steve Anglesey and Carl Greenwood, www.mirror.co.uk. September 04, 2014.
“One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanentâ€¦ Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.”
“When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women.”

Source : Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.228, Vintage
“[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow.”
“I used to be, when I was young, I used to be extremely regular and very organized.”

Source : "Writer/Director Tony Gilroy Talks THE BOURNE LEGACY, Deleted Scenes, the Franchise Going Forward, His Thoughts on IMAX and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 12, 2012.
“Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience....”
“I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation.”
“You may be sitting in a room reading this book. Imagine one note struck upon the piano. Immediately that one note is enough to change the atmosphere of the room - proving that the sound element in music is a powerful and mysterious agent, which it would be foolish to deride or belittle.”

Source : Aaron Copland (2011). “What to Listen For in Music”, p.23, Penguin

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