Cleanlines Quotes & Sayings

Definitions, her grandmother once said, had to be like a fat man's belt - big enough to cover the subject but elastic enough to allow for change.
The Sunborn — Gregory Benford

As a new mother, you're so vulnerable and make mistakes all the time. I guess there's more pressure when you're in the public eye, but I'd never stand by and let anyone exploit my daughter. — Jessica Marais

I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college. — Maajid Nawaz

The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his ... genius. — Otto Weininger

The remaining, less developed characters, were still either listening or laughing. They were divided between curiosity and satisfaction. They felt happy, but did not know it. — Elias Canetti

The day-to-day exhausted me! — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Don't punish yourselves for people's ignorant reactions to what we all are. Don't let ignorance win. Let love. — Nancy Garden

Domestic work is the most elementary form of labor. It is suitable for those with the intelligence of rabbits. All it requires is cleanlines, tidiness and quickness - not moral or intellectual qualities at all, but merely the outward and visible signs of health. — Rebecca West