"After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so."

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Source : Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated

Adam Gopnik

#Rewards Quotes #Spinning Quotes #Carousels Quotes

“I don't know what people should be reading. Only you know what you should be reading.”
“In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.”
“The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings.”
“The message of a leopard-print jumpsuit is clear: 'I am a huntress who delights in eating the offal of her prey.'”

Source : Simon Doonan (2008). “Eccentric Glamour: Creating an Insanely More Fabulous You”, p.61, Simon and Schuster
“Hail, Holy Day! the blessing from above Brightens thy presence like a smile of love, Smoothing, like oil upon a stormy sea, The roughest waves of human destiny Cheering the good, and to the poor oppress'd Bearing the promise of their heavenly rest.”
“I like people with guts. I want to feel in the clothes what the designer is really feeling when they're alone with themselves and their fabrics and they're drawings, and what happens when they let the creativity that they have been blessed with come forward. That's why they are who they are.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Safe sex, safe music, safe clothing, safe hair spray, safe ozone layer. Too late! Everything that's been achieved in the history of mankind has been achieved by not being safe.”
“Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.”

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