"Sunglasses are great, but I always feel a bit pretentious wearing sunglasses. I mean, I do love to wear them."

-- Daphne Guinness

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“When we were children, letters were like fun toys.Â We played with them through our building blocks. We colored them in books. We danced and sang along with TV puppets while learning C was for â€œcookie.â€ Soon, letters turned into words. Words turned into sentences. Sentences turned into thoughts. And along the way, we stopped playing with them and stopped marveling at A through Z.”
“I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged.”
“There's a very distinct difference between a really wonderful DIY label and a soft drink company, or a car company, or a clothing brand, and you will always understand that difference.”

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“If we divested ourselves, once and for all, of all self-will, we would then be in a position of being sure of doing the Will of God, in which the angels find all their delight and men all their happiness.”
“Young men, you who have any piety at all, what sort is it? Is it a hot-house plant, which must be framed and glassed, lest March, that bold young fellow, should shake the life out.of it in his rough play among the flowers? or is it a hardy shrub, which rejoices when the wild winds course along the heather or howl above the crest of Lebanon ' We need, believe me, the bravery of godliness to bear true witness for our Master now.”

Source : William Morley Punshon (1873). “Lectures and Sermons”, p.9, Adam, Stevenson
“There is, of course, nothing wrong in a program that aims to please everybody, except that as a rule it is a prelude to dictatorship.”

Source : J. Christopher Herold (2002). “The Age of Napoleon”, p.432, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The artist knows he must be alone to create; the writer, to work out his thoughts; the musician, to compose; the saint, to pray. But women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.”
“I've been around young, talented, non-coachable players. I've been around veteran, talented, non-coachable players. No matter what you do, sooner or later - even if a coach comes in that's able to connect with them - if that's who they are, they're going to go back to it.”

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