Fragranced Dusting Quotes & Sayings

One of the reasons I love to come to Paris is because the decorative arts are so refined that I am always walking through one proscenium into another frame. — Ralph Gibson

When I went to school, my intention was to be a lawyer. When I attended university that was still the clear intention; I was going to be a lawyer. Why? Because it was as far as I could get from my father's antics and world. I thought that the world of the arts probably led people into the kind of behavior I had seen with him and that had resulted in a lot of hard times for my mother and me. — James Lipton

Endurance is patience concentrated. — Thomas Carlyle

And when a Maddox boy falls in love, he loves forever. — Jamie McGuire

But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless. — Lorrie Moore

I grew up in the '50s, a tough time for African Americans. I had friends whose fathers would openly say, 'Just bite your tongu;, don't cause any problems.' My father was not like that. Even in the toughest times racially, if somebody disrespected his family, they were in trouble. — Gregory Hines

Infinite speech is that mode of discourse that consistently reminds us of the unspeakability of nature. It bears no claim to truth, originating from nothing but the genius of the speaker. Infinite speech is therefore no about anything; it is always to someone. It is not command, but address. It belongs entirely to the speakable. — James P. Carse

But through it all, Bezos never showed anxiety or appeared to worry about the wild swings in public sentiment. "We were all running around the halls with our hair on fire thinking, What are we going to do?" says Mark Britto, a senior vice president. But not Jeff. "I have never seen anyone so calm in the eye of a storm. Ice water runs through his veins," Britto says. — Brad Stone

Very slowly he turned his head back to look at Shmuel, who wasn't crying anymore, merely staring at the floor and looking as if he was trying to convince his soul not to live inside his tiny body anymore, but to slip away and sail to the door and rise up into the sky, gliding through the clouds until it was very far away.' -The Boy in the Striped Pajamas — John Boyne

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about. — Winston S. Churchill

I'm inspired by fashion. I'm inspired by the moonlight. I'm inspired by sex and pornography and slasher films. — Lady Gaga

The power of mankind has always been in overlooking the finality of things and holding onto optimism even when doing so seems foolish. — Chris Dietzel