"Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success."

-- Ninette de Valois

#Dance Quotes #Done Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“A large proportion of mankind, like pigeons and partridges, on reaching maturity, having passed through a period of playfulness or promiscuity, establish what they hope and expect will be a permanent and fertile mating relationship. This we call marriage.”

Source : Genetics and Man Ch. 16
“Why can't I believe? she asked the darkness. Behind her eyelids she saw an animal. It was golden colour, with gentle green eyes and canine teeth, and curly wool instead of fur. It opened its mouth, but it did not speak. Instead, it yawned.It gazed at her. She gazed at it. "You are the effect of a carefully calibrated blend of plant toxins," she told it.Then she fell asleep.”
“We have a society in which men sexualize women, period. If you don't want male attention, it makes total sense you'd do everything to your dress and physicality to not be sexualized. But I see that changing dramatically. Now, [younger lesbians] look more like Paris Hilton than Billie Jean King.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer.”
“The microscopes that magnified the tears, studied warts and all. Still life flows on.”
“I was the chief executive once, I've been there. My recommendation to anybody is don't go backwards.”

Source : "Sir Stuart Rose: 'They say we can't afford to retire, and I don't want to'". Interview with Juliette Garside, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2012.
“I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.”
“Sometimes love is so intense that it turns into this gray area that borders on hate. That's what happens when the people you love have that type of power over you.”

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