"Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there'll come a time when you'll start asking just for a crust."

-- Ivan Turgenev

#Cake Quotes #Asking Quotes #Fancy Quotes

“A goal is simply a dream with a deadline.”
“Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.”
“Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer.”

Source : "A Plea for the Queen's English? RU joking?" by Dan Cook, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2010.
“The most difficult owner for me was the late George Marshall of Washington.”
“It is this ideal of progress through cumulative effort rather than through geniusâ€”progress by organised effort, progress which does not wait for some brilliant stroke, some lucky discovery, or the advent of some superman, has been the chief gift of science to social philosophy.”
“The last two years with the Eagles were pretty intense times. There was a lot of drinking and we were all getting high a lot. My parents were relieved when I got off the Eagles treadmill.”
“I don't think couture will die. But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world. It's not something that will disappear because all you need is a thread and a needle to start making something couture.”
“Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.”

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