Lovely Stuff Alan Quotes & Sayings

Women made such swell friends. Awfully swell. In the first place, you had to be in love with a woman to have a basis of friendship. — Ernest Hemingway,

Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it be without absurdity supposed able to do them; which yet are works very gross and rude, very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree. — Isaac Barrow

I feel very strongly about dresses on every level - a dress feels like underpinning. — Donna Karan

Education is mostly about institutions and getting tickets stamped; learning is what we do for ourselves. When we're lucky, they go together. If I had to choose, I'd take learning. — Thomas C. Foster

Why can't everything be as easy as walking into H&M and putting a week's worth of clothes on a credit card? — Emma McLaughlin

I don't have many friends. TAMMY, I guess. Her soul is code, is a fixed set of instructions, and although you might think having a relationship with someone like that would get boring after a while, it doesn't. TAMMY's AI is good. Really good. She's smarter than I am, by a mile, by an order of magnitude. In all the time I've known her, TAMMY's never said the same thing to me twice, which is more than you can ask from most human friends. Plus, I have Ed for petting and body heat. I think that probably sounds more yucky than it really is. — Charles Yu

Anything you do will be an abuse of somebody else's aesthetics. I think you're born an artist or not. I couldn't have learned it. And I hope I never do because knowing more only encourages your limitations. — Robert Rauschenberg

The mountain rill Seeks with no surer flow the far bright sea, Than my unchang'd affections flow to thee. — Benjamin

Don't go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst. — Benjamin Franklin