"... I have always fallen for ads. The sweetheart of J. Walter Thompson, I have a peasant-like belief in whatever miracle they profess to effect."

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Source : Cornelia Otis Skinner (1948). “That's Me All Over: All the Favorite Absurdities from Dithers and Jitters, Soap Behind the Ears, and Excuse It, Please! Along with Tiny Garments”

Cornelia Otis Skinner

#Miracle Quotes #Belief Quotes #Sweetheart Quotes

“I never started writing because I wanted to write myself stuff. It was really more that I had these stories to tell, and I wanted to work with people that I respected and liked.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“If everyone is speaking caterpillar, donâ€™t be afraid to speak butterfly. When itâ€™s time to awaken, nothing else will suit you.”
“There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else.”
“avarice is especially, I suppose, a disease of the imagination.”

Source : Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge”, p.131
“Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.”
“I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.”
“Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant.”

Source : "A gag full of holes". www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2007.
“And in this silence of the dumb and these speeches of the blind, in this medly of people bound together by the same grief, terror and hope, in this hatred and lack of understanding between men who spoke the same tongue, you could see much of the tragedy of the twentieth century.”

Source : Vasily Grossman (2011). “Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.17, Random House

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