"I'd like somebody to breed a male, genus homo, who could go and fetch a 12" x 8" black suÃ¨de purse lying in the middle of a white bedspread and not come back looking baffled and saying he couldn't find it."

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Source : Margaret Halsey (1944). “...Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel”

Margaret Halsey

#Lying Quotes #Men Quotes #White Quotes

“Yeah, we could have done things differently. But - If we'd done things differently, we wouldn't be who we are. We are the sum of the choices we make. Even the bad choices we make. I made a lot of bad choices, but on the other hand, I am who I am, and I'm proud of my work, and I'm proud of my family, and those are also the product of choices, including financial choices, that I made.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“When I'm writing a book, generally I start with the mood and setting, along with a couple of specific imagesÂ—things that have come into my head, totally abstracted from any narrative, that I've fixated on. After that, I construct a world, or an area, into which that general setting, that atmosphere, and the specific images I've focused on can fit.”
“Strategy is not a lengthy action plan. It is the evolution of a central idea through continually changing circumstances.”
“White Collar' is a show about the unlikely pairing of an FBI agent and an ex-con solving smart, glamorous, interesting and provocative crimes in a sometimes very funny way.”
“People need to stand up hold hands, talk about alternatives. Alternatives, alternatives, alternatives. And people united will never, ever be defeated.”
“There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.”
“When I play my best golf, I feel as if I'm in a fog, standing back watching the earth in orbit with a golf club in my hands.”
“As people get older, we all know, you get married and you have a child and that becomes your family, but when you're 16 years old, especially, your family is your friends.”

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