"In London I have been by turns poor and rich, hopeful and despondent, successful and down and out, utterly miserable and ecstatically, dizzily happy. I belong to London as each of us can belong to only one place on this earth. And, in the same way, London belongs to me."

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Source : Gertrude Lawrence (1945). “A Star Danced”

Gertrude Lawrence

#Successful Quotes #Hopeful Quotes #Earth Quotes

“We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.”
“When Allah loves you, He places the love of you in the hearts of the people whose love is worth having.”

Source : FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Jun 07, 2013
“That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper colour contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness.”
“Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change.”
“Solitude causes us to write because it causes us to think.”
“I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.”
“Omg. My long time teammate on the Nadadores and team USA, Fran Crippen, passed away today while racing in Dubai.”
“You know what the hardest thing is? What nobody wants to understand -- is me. People want their memories of me to be my memories of me. But you know what? They're not.”

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