"Wine is a successful effort to translate the perishable into the permanent."

-- John Arlott

#Food Quotes #Wine Quotes #Successful Quotes

“It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.”

Source : "Michael Gove proposes teaching foreign languages from age five" by Patrick Wintour, Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.
“No extraordinary result ever came from mediocre effort.”

Source : FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Nov 12, 2009
“To apologize for your personal absolutes, for what Sandy Pinter calls your â€œCore Attachments,â€ means apologizing for your very existence.”
“Very often when I am introduced to women, I think, What is she really like behind the disguise which she wears? And very often I discover that she is pleasant enough, and probably would expand and glow if she received enough affection.”
“I wanted to cry, but the tears did not come.”

Source : Tatiana de Rosnay (2007). “Sarah's Key”, p.205, Macmillan
“In those days, young stars, male and female, were all virgins until married, and if divorced, they returned magically to that condition.”
“To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American] system must depend; unless that ascendancy can be preserved, the necessary consequence must be that the laws will supersede the Constitution; and, finally, the will of the Executive, by influence of its patronage, will supersede the laws . . .”
“These words reveal the childâ€™s inner needs; â€˜Help me to do it aloneâ€™.”

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