"Light, air and comfort - these three things I must always have in a room ..."

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Source : Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

Elsie de Wolfe

#Light Quotes #Air Quotes #Comfort Quotes

“All the other candidates are making speeches about how much they have done for their country, which is ridiculous. I haven't done anything yet, and I think it's just common sense to send me to Washington and make me do my share.”

Source : "How to Become President". Book by Gracie Allen, 1940.
“People talk about talent as though it were some neutral substance that can be applied to anything. But talent is narrow and only functions with a very few subjects, which it is up to the writer to find.”

Source : Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word & other words”, Dutton Adult
“[I've worked as a guard at Rikers Island] from 1988 to 1990.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“A child gets sick with a chronic disease of unhappiness not from unhappy circumstances but from unhappy people around him. Unhappy people cannot raise happy children; it's impossible.”

Source : Simon Soloveychik (2010). “Parenting for Everyone: Where Do Good Children Come From?”, p.30, Aigul Aubanova
“I find that short stories are almost like palate cleansers or brain cleansers.”

Source : "Book Release: The Melting Season". Interview with Natasha Clark, www.elle.com. January 22, 2010.
“If little fish get eaten by bigger fish, and bigger fish get eaten by bigger fish... what happens when there are no little fish? The world's populations of little fish are being harvested to make catfood!? This nonsense has to stop. Feed a fish a cat a day!”
“Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused into the minds of a whole people....The feeling of equality which they proudly cherish does not proceed from an ignorance of their station, but from the knowledge of their rights; and it is this knowledge which will render it so exceedingly difficult for any tyrant ever to triumph over the liberties of our country.”

Source : Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1828). “Ladies' Magazine”, p.443
“As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.”

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