"I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination."

-- Andrew Motion

#Beautiful Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Prejudice Quotes

“So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.”
“Let us make hay while the sun shines.”
“He only invited me because of you and Chase.' 'Right,' she said, following me inside. 'He's never shown the slightest interest in you before. I mean, he's never stared at you like you're the only person in the room when we're all together. Or sulked around for days because you turned him down for a dance. Or touched the sleeve of your sweater when he thinks no one's looking-' 'He's never done any of that,' I said. Then, less confidently, 'Has he?”
“The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I have lots of friends. I mix with all sorts of people, of all generations.”
“I also love a film by Ang Lee - "Lust, Caution."”
“It was our use of probability theory as logic that has enabled us to do so easily what was impossible for those who thought of probability as a physical phenomenon associated with "randomness". Quite the opposite; we have thought of probability distributions as carriers of information.”
“Fear can be overcome only by Faith.”

Source : Grantly Dick-Read (1950). “The birth of a child: obstetric procedure in normal chidbirth for those who attend women in labor”

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