Chandeliers For Sale Quotes & Sayings

A woman is often measured by the things she cannot control. She is measured by the way her body curves or doesn't curve, by where she is flat or straight or round. She is measured by 36-24-36 and inches and ages and numbers, by all the outside things that don't ever add up to who she is on the inside. And so if a woman is to be measured, let her be measured by the things she can control, by who she is and who she is trying to become. Because as every woman knows, measurements are only statistics ... and STATISTICS LIE. — Marilyn Monroe

The rook is a skilled survivor. He is ancient and has inhabited the planet longer than humans. This you can tell from his singing voice: his cry is harsh and grating, made for a more ancient world that existed before the innovation of the pipe, the lute, and the viol. Before music was invented he was taught to sing by the planet itself. He mimicked the great rumble of the sea, the fearsome eruption of volcanoes, the creaking of glaciers, and the geological groaning as the world split apart in its agony and remade itself. — Diane Setterfield

The greater the number of owners, the less the respect for common property. People are much more careful of their personal possessions than of those owned communally; they exercise care over common property only in so far as they are personally affected. — Aristotle.

I like attractive people who aren't so terribly aware that they are attractive ... people who aren't afraid to roll on the floor and make fools out of themselves. — Bob Fosse

If there's a way or path, it's someone else's. — Joseph Campbell

Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9. — Dennis Ritchie

Anybody who's against birth control and abortion has to be a criminal idiot. — Eleanor Clark

There's so much more you can do with the dynamics of songs when they're simple ... I think it was what I needed in my life - there was a lot going on, a lot of layers. — Sarah Blasko

Every time people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes. — Gillian Flynn

Sold my soul to the devil, made a profit. — Kevin Rudolf

The style of politics that Damian McBride represents has been discredited, and Labour has moved on. — Douglas Alexander

Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country. — Aaron Copland

It's a toss-up whether the scenery or the adornment of Marilyn Monroe is the feature of greater attraction in River of No Return. The mountainous scenery is spectacular, but so in her own way is Miss Monroe. — Bosley Crowther

Let us be very sincere in our dealings with each other, and have the courage to accept each other as we are. Do not be surprised or become preoccupied at each other's failures - rather, see and find in each other the good, for each one of us is created in the image of God. — Mother Teresa

Man is pre-eminently a creative animal, predestined to strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering - that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky