"Minnesotans who bought scenic art usually avoided winter scenes. Hannah didn't find that surprising. Minnesota winters were long. Why would they want to buy a painting that would constantly remind them of the bone-chilling cold, the heavy snow that had to be shoveled, and the necessity of dressing up in survival gear to do nothing more than take out the garbage?"

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Source : Joanne Fluke (2011). “Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder”, p.120, Kensington Books

Joanne Fluke

#Art Quotes #Winter Quotes #Dressing Up Quotes

“Everyone at school seems to go by a nickname. Kat, Frosty, Bronx, Boo Bear, Jelly Bean, Freckles.”
“The bottom line is that there is a lot more that could and should be done to help people with nutrition and exercise.”
“Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.”
“But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out.”
“My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right?”
“It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich.”

Source : "Robin Leach...Rish & Famous". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.
“In the post-Snowden world, you need to enable others to build their own cloud and have mobility of applications. Thatâ€™s both because of the physicality of computingâ€“where the speed of light still mattersâ€“and because of geopolitics.”
“I was a really bad kid. Then, I got sweet as I got older.”

Source : "Johnny Knoxville and Bam Margera Interview JACKASS 3D". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 12, 2010.

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