Couperuslaan Quotes & Sayings

I don't like cleaning or dusting or cooking or doing dishes, or any of those things," I explained to her. "And I don't usually do it. I find it boring, you see."
"Everyone has to do those things," she said.
"Rich people don't," I pointed out.
Juniper laughed, as she often did at things I said in those early days, but at once became quite serious.
"They miss a lot of fun," she said. "But quite apart from that
keeping yourself clean, preparing the food you are going to eat, clearing it away afterward
that's what life's about, Wise Child. When people forget that, or lose touch with it, then they lose touch with other important things as well."
"Men don't do those things."
"Exactly. Also, as you clean the house up, it gives you time to tidy yourself up inside
you'll see. — Monica Furlong

You could think of an ecosystem as a bunch of antagonistic arms races, almost: Everything that an animal depends upon for food is the body part of some other animal or plant who would just as soon keep that body part for itself. — Steven Pinker

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. — Herbert Agar

If he had been able to, Barbaja would have put me in charge of the kitchen as well' (Rossini on his impresario — Gioachino Rossini

If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them. — Samuel Goldwyn

Happiness is a simple game of lost and found: Lose the things you take for granted, and you will feel great happiness once they are found. — Richelle E. Goodrich