"the person talking to you never looks directly at you, but rather around the room, searching for the answer to the universal cocktail party question, 'Who's here tonight?"

-- Letitia Baldrige

#Party Quotes #Talking Quotes #Looks Quotes

“Why does a salmon rise? Why does a small boy cross the street just to kick a tin can?”

Source : Lee Wulff (1958). “The Atlantic Salmon”
“My torso is short, but my arms are really long and gangly and my legs and my neck, and my feet and hands are really long, and I look like a duck.”
“I think when you grow up living next to your grandparents and cousins and you're 300 meters from the family offices and the setting of your after-school games is the fashion atelier, it can be hard to see yourself as an individual. It's quite understandable that a young person might feel the need to prove themselves as a single entity first.”
“No precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee. We need a stance of problem-fixing, not just problem-avoidance.”
“It's hard for bands to stick it out because people grow up, and it never really pays off. If you're looking for some sort of payoff, it's not gonna happen”
“Alaska itself is an unusual state.”
“Utility representatives will not show up at your door unannounced and will not ask for banking information in unsolicited phone calls. If you get a request for personal information that leaves you skeptical, contact my office and we can help determine if the call was legitimate.”
“Gentlemen don't propose when they're eating.”

Source : "Fictional character: Carol Beldon". "Mrs. Miniver", www.imdb.com. 1942.

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