"A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women."

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Source : New York Times 24 Jan. 1932, sec. 8, p. 6

Edgar Wallace

#Education Quotes #Women Quotes #Learning Quotes

“That's the funny thing, she thought. You always want things to get better, but you never know how good you already have it.”

Source : Scott Speer (2012). “Immortal City”, p.293, Scholastic UK
“Violence never settles anything.”
“Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. It's a misery. I wish I were someone else.”
“Ninety countries still hold on to capital punishment, and, sadly, one of these is the United States, the only Western industrialized country to practice this barbaric punishment.”

Source : Antoinette Bosco (2001). “Choosing Mercy: A Mother of Murder Victims Pleads to End the Death Penalty”
“There's always a latent or inferred image in my writing. And I can almost always assume if I do a drawing that it will eventually have text.”

Source : The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. December 2004.
“Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance, superstition, poverty, eccentricity, unrecognized anachronism, passion and ignorance and the little boy's misery. Yeats was treated well but was bitterly unhappy; he prayed that he would die, and used often to say to himself: "When you are grown up, never talk as grown-up people do of the happiness of childhood.”
“I find words really hard.”
“Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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