"I might be a wicked girl who'd think nothing of eating a baby for breakfast, but I'd never allow myself to get expelled. It's far too public."

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Source : Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.18, A&C Black

Franny Billingsley

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“The key to artistic photography is to work out your own thoughts, by yourselves. Imitation leads to certain disaster. New ideas are always antagonized. Do not mind that. If a thing is good it will survive.”

Source : Barbara L. Michaels, Gertrude Käsebier (1992). “Gertrude Käsebier: the photographer and her photographs”, Harry N Abrams Inc
“We do not draw conclusions with our eyes, but with our reasoning powers, and if the whole of the rest of living nature proclaims with one accord from all sides the evolution of the world of organisms, we cannot assume that the process stopped short of Man. But it follows also that the factors which brought about the development of Man from his Simian ancestry must be the same as those which have brought about the whole of evolution.”
“It’s disturbing that people are questioning my sanity for giving up the money. What does that say about our world?”

Source : "Quitting the N.F.L.: For John Moffitt, the Money Wasn’t Worth It" by Ken Belson, www.nytimes.com. November 18, 2013.
“I love doing theater. That's where my home is.”
“One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.”
“I have need to busy my heart with quietude.”

Source : Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.58, Delphi Classics
“I definitely challenge people. But hopefully, I am working harder than anybody else, and so people won't resent the fact that I want them to work hard, as well.”
“We should pray when we are in a praying mood, for it would be sinful to neglect so fair an opportunity. We should pray when we are not in a proper mood, for it would be dangerous to remain in so unhealthy a condition.”

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