"I just like food too much, and I don't want to change. I spent so much of childhood trying to change, and I just got sick of it... I don't want to look like Britney Spears, I just don't want to. She's hideous."

-- Beth Ditto

#Sick Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Trying Quotes

“My father taught me how to substitute realities.”
“I love the book. I love the feel of a book in my hands, the compactness of it, the shape, the size. I love the feel of paper. The sound it makes when I turn a page. I love the beauty of print on paper, the patterns, the shapes, the fonts. I am astonished by the versatility and practicality of The Book. It is so simple. It is so fit for its purpose. It may give me mere content, but no e-reader will ever give me that sort of added pleasure.”

Source : FaceBook post by Susan Hill from Feb 05, 2013
“Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has laid up no material can produce no combination.”
“Focus on building the best possible business. If you are great, people will notice and opportunities will appear.”
“The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.”

Source : Bryan Waller Procter (1857). “Dramatic Scenes ; with Other Poems Now First Printed”, p.192
“Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.”
“Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.”
“I want to be bored. But I can't. But I really don't want to be this thing that I'm having to be instead of being bored.”

Source : Ali Smith (2014). “How to be Both”, p.252, Penguin UK

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