"The world looks very different to me now at twenty. I have outgrown my early opinions and ideals with my short dresses, just as Mrs. Walton said we would. Now the critics can say 'Thou waitest till thy woman's fingers wrought the best that lay within thy woman's heart.'"

-- Annie Fellows Johnston

#Heart Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Twenties Quotes

“People make the world go, and Mothers make people, so they lead the dance.”

Source : Peter V. Brett (2016). “The Demon Cycle 4-Book Bundle: The Warded Man, The Desert Spear, The Daylight War, The Skull Throne”, p.23, Del Rey
“Do you work at the grocery store? Then why are you checking me out?”
“I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more valid than the artwork of all but a very few artists.”

Source : "Ellsworth Kelly: schilderijen en beelden 1963-1979". Exhibition catalogue by Ellsworth Kelly, Barbara Rose, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 'Notes from 1969', 1979.
“Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.”
“I wanted a shark that's big enough to eat you, and in a large enough amount of liquid so that you could imagine you were in there with it.”
“Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.”
“I don't believe in depriving yourself of things you want.”
“During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn't do it. Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.”

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