"That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place of mists and languor and fragrant richness..."

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Source : Anne Rivers Siddons (1993). “Colony”, G K Hall & Company

Anne Rivers Siddons

#Air Quotes #Blood Quotes #Sea Quotes

“I sat down and collected all of our eleven sales for the past six months and I added them all together and divided by eleven. I then took that average and presented it as the average price for a Manhattan apartment. The media ate it up.”
“What does she do?" "She's a producer." Of course, in Los Angeles this doesn't mean much more than "she's a member of the human race.”
“And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.”
“From the very first time I talked to Safeco employees, I said the reality was expenses were too high and the reality is two-thirds of our expenses are people, so the reality is there will be effects on people.”
“We picked the Red Sox because they lose. If you root for something that loses for 86 years, you're a pretty good fan. You don't have to win everything to be a fan of something.”
“Mountain, mountain, mountain, marking time. Each nameless, wall beyond wall, wavering redefinition of horizon.”
“We are only safe when we wisely make use of all good advantages that we have access to. By going out of God's ways we go out of His government, and so lose our good frame of mind, and find ourselves overspread quickly with a contrary disposition. When we draw near to Christ (James 4:8), in His ordinances, He draws near to us.”
“Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.”

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