"A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours."

-- J. B. Priestley

#Time Quotes #Travel Quotes #Holiday Quotes

“The influence of friendship upon culture differs from that of love, in that it assumes the basic idiosyncrasies of personal taste to be unalterable. Love, in spite of all rational knowledge to the contrary, is always in the mood of believing in miracles.”

Source : "The Meaning of Culture". Book by John Cowper Powys, p. 170, 1929.
“I too searched far and wide for the cure to addiction, but my medical and psychiatric background did not lead me to the cure because the source of addiction does not lie here,.”
“The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.”
“The color palette grew as the story progressed. The 1920's sharecroppers were muted and neutrals, the 30's and 40's introduced burgundy to the neutral palette. The 1950's introduced green, black and denim blue, the 1960's introduced orange and heavier more saturated color, the 1970's introduced more primaries, and the fashion palette became more recognizable as a contemporary one from there.”
“Paris, true to its promise, had been a place of civilized indecencies, or uncivil decencies ...”
“Indeed, there are Islamic terrorist training camps in America”
“I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.”
“A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.”

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