"You love her," Teddy observed quietly. Henry replied with an uncharacteristic lack of irony: "Yes." Teddy's eyes shifted to the plaster interlacing that decorated the ceiling in curlicues. "Lord, you never make it easy, do you." "No."

-- Anna Godbersen

#Eye Quotes #Ceilings Quotes #Irony Quotes

“Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's as clear as day. Animals can't even imagine lying: if you were to find yourself among some wild islanders, they too would only speak the truth until they learned about European culture.”
“As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In fact, a full frequency of vibrations occurs.”

Source : Earthquake information bulletin, Volume 12, Issue 1, 1980.
“I've never been in love with fashion, actually; trends and catwalks don't interest me. I love clothes; I love them historically and currently. They represent a spirit of the times and the zeitgeist.”
“Our best today; better tomorrow,”

Source : Ben Bradlee (2017). “A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures”, p.482, Simon and Schuster
“Arithmetic has began to totter.”
“You can't be selective about freedom of speech. If you say you believe in freedom of speech you have to acknowledge the people whose views you disagree with, people whose views you may detest, nevertheless have the right to freedom of speech.”

Source : "Odd Man Out: A Memoir of the Hollywood Ten". Book by Edward Dmytryk, 1996.
“I just didn't know what the heck I wanted to do with my life, so I drove out to California and got really lucky.”
“The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.”

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