"No wonder the tulip is the patron flower of Holland. Looking at it one almost smells fresh paint laid on in generous brilliance: doors, blinds, whole houses, canal boats, pails, farm wagons - all painted in greens, blues, reds, pinks, yellows."

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Source : Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (1976). “Personal geography: almost an autobiography”, Stephen Greene Press

Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

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“I just realized how long it was since the last album, and where did the time go? You know?”

Source : "An Electric return for Jeff Lynne". Interview with Paul Clinton, www.cnn.com. September 3, 2001.
“The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.”
“Our policy is to encourage investment and promote freedom for industry to innovate.”
“I'm 20 years old. I like to party as much as anyone my age. Going clubbing is my way of relaxing or releasing a lot of stress. I don't feel that I should have to justify that part of my life. I don't know that I'm necessarily an addict.”
“... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.”
“The overhead bins - this is not a real passenger plane. We wanted it to look like a real passenger plane. But we're actually inside a very heavy-duty, industrial, like, cargo plane. And we built this set inside of it.”
“Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he that with content enjoys a competence.”
“But I think the more you eat healthy clean foods the more you create them.”

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