"Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman."

-- M. F. K. Fisher

#Isms Quotes #Painting Quotes #Whim Quotes

“Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.”
“Things are pretty good in Canada. We weathered the recession fairly well. And, of course, were up here up living here, we're watching American news and we're constantly saying, wow, it's not as bad as it is in the United States.”
“Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just virtual reality.”

Source : "Britain needs schools for science" by Martin Rees, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2011.
“Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.”

Source : "The Progress of Fifty Years". Speech at the Congress of Women at the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition (World's Fair), Chicago, Illinois, 1893.
“A good marriage is like an incredible retirement fund. You put everything you have into it during your productive life, and over the years it turns from silver to gold to platinum.”
“The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.”
“Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimise the importance of the individual and maximise the importance of the group. Yet our instinctive stance ought to be one of suspicion towards such endeavours. For individuals are undeniably real. Groups, on the other hand, are assertions of opinion.”
“What pity 'tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill!”

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