"When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened."

-- Wally Lamb

#Girl Quotes #Baby Quotes #Cousin Quotes

“Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.”

Source : Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.55, Simon and Schuster
“In Egypt, I loved the perfume of the lotus. A flower would bloom in the pool at dawn, filling the entire garden with a blue musk so powerful it seemed that even the fish and ducks would swoon. By night, the flower might wither but the perfume lasted. Fainter and fainter, but never quite gone. Even many days later, the lotus remained in the garden. Months would pass and a bee would alight near the spot where the lotus had blossomed, and its essence was released again, momentary but undeniable.”
“You can see the actions that the Russians are trying to take in eastern Ukraine. And so it's so important that we take actions to deter further Russian aggression against the Ukrainian people.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“I never watched Friends, maybe because it was written by people straight out of college....The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.”
“The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one.”
“If you tell me, it's an essay. If you show me, it's a story.”
“Part of my job is to try and seduce people. It's what I get paid for, and if people get in the way of me doing my job I can be very difficult.”
“The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.”

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