"The boy I just kissed is talking to my father. The boy I want to kiss again is waiting for my mother to serve pancakes. I must fight the urge to freak."

-- David Levithan

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #Kissing Quotes

“Many aspects of our screen-bound lives are bad for our social skills simply because we get accustomed to controlling the information that comes in, managing our relationships electronically, deleting stuff that doesn't interest us. We edit the world; we select from menus; we pick and choose; our social 'group' focuses on us and disintegrates without us. This makes it rather confusing for us when we step outdoors and discover that other people's behaviour can't be deleted with a simple one-stroke command or dragged to the trash icon.”
“Lets cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times.”
“To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Sometimes you wake up in the morning and wish your parents had never met.”
“American companies spend more than $200 billion each year hacking women's bodies into bits and pieces, urging comparisons between self and other, linking value to air-brushed ideals, and as the girls in my seventh-grade class graduated to high school and beyond, the imagery around us would only grow more specific, more pummeling, more insidious.”
“Even when you tear its petals off one after another, the rose keeps laughing and doesnâ€™t bend in pain. â€œWhy should I be afflicted because of a thorn? It is the thorn which taught me how to laugh.â€ Whatever you lost through fate, be certain that it saved you from pain.”
“In 'Curvy,' they are superhappy with their sizes. We help them dress fashionably. We say: It's pointless for you to buy leggings, take this because this will look good on you. We help them choose. We don't talk about diets because they don't want to be on a diet, but it's not a ghetto. Why should these women slim down? Many of the women who have a few extra kilos are especially beautiful and also more feminine.”
“All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.”

Source : Clive James (2009). “May Week Was In June”, p.204, Pan Macmillan

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