Outshop Shop Quotes & Sayings

flaunting the Kohinoor on the Queen Mother's crown in the Tower of London is a powerful reminder of the injustices perpetrated by the former imperial power. Until it is returned - at least as a symbolic gesture of expiation - it will remain evidence of the loot, plunder and misappropriation that colonialism was really all about. Perhaps that is the best argument for leaving the Kohinoor where it emphatically does not belong - in British hands. — Shashi Tharoor

His lips are against my ear and I feel the warmth of his body surrounding me, caging me in, comforting me. — Collette West

No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its frivolity. It is called a city of pleasure; but it may also very specially be called a city of pain. The crown of roses is also a crown of thorns. Its people are too prone to hurt others, but quite ready also to hurt themselves. They are martyrs for religion, they are martyrs for irreligion; they are even martyrs for immorality. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Every artist will one day face the moment when he or she is doing what he or she does after the style has passed and the art-world heat-seeking machine has moved on. — Jerry Saltz

There isn't anything you can't stand if you are only born and bred to it. — Mark Twain

I'd never seen a man who could outshop me, but Jenks was a master. — Kim Harrison

The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative. — Nancy Etcoff

Don't let this go to your head, but I missed your face. — Ashlan Thomas

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. — Mahatma Gandhi

I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom of the wise. — Thomas Jefferson