"The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts... painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and other absurdities of dress which betoken the slave-woman's intelligent companionship."

-- Sylvia Pankhurst

#Intelligent Quotes #Nails Quotes #Dresses Quotes

“When I get on the airplane, I put on the eye mask. And I travel a lot so I use it all the time.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“Memoir is a weird genre for a reporter. You end up investigating your own memories, reporting out your past.”
“Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.”

Source : G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.365, Read Books Ltd
“I tattooed my body so I couldn't fall back on anything. I purposely did that so I couldn't get a normal job and live a normal life. I did it so I had to play music.”

Source : "Pop Quiz: Travis Baker". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. June 26, 2005.
“My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking!”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.”
“Work hard, work passionately, but apply your most precious assetâ€”timeâ€”to what is most meaningful to you.”

Source : Randy Komisar, Kent L. Lineback (2001). “The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living”, p.156, Harvard Business Press
“About the last thing I ever wanted in life was a knighthood, and even today some forty years after the event, I find it difficult to come to terms with a life where old and valued friends insist on calling me 'Sir' instead of Don, simply because they think it is protocol. But I have consciously shouldered these burdens because I felt that I was the medium through which cricket could achieve a higher status and gain maximum support from the people, not only in Australia but throughout the world.”

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