Pearls And Earring Quotes & Sayings

Only in love is there trust - even the possibility of trust. — Joyce Carol Oates

The thought of my chief inspector reading The Waste Land filled me with pleasure. Suddenly he pushed a snapshot toward me. — W. Somerset Maugham

Daphne came in with her arms full of books, and her eyes blazing like two poisoned moons. How'd you like the mess St. John? — Helen Oyeyemi

In person, I wear jeans and flip-flops, and people are so shocked. They tell me I look so much younger than they expected. — Christina Hendricks

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. — Albert Camus

If you shift your focus from oneself to others, and think more about others' well-being and welfare, it has an immediate liberating effect. — Dalai Lama

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams. — Jesse Jackson

It is possible to fail in many ways ... while to succeed is possible only in one way. — Aristotle.

It was really wonderful playing with Aretha [ Franklin]. I knew that she knew what she was doing, so all I had to do was sit in the background and vamp a little bit. — Condoleezza Rice

I wouldn't like to find out my GP was messing about with black magic. It would be like discovering that your bank manager was also a stand-up comic. — Christopher Fowler

I don't like being in front of the camera. — Gia Coppola

From a hundred rabbits you can't make a horse. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Instead, he was astonished by what he had: the chance to sit beside this woman in the late afternoon light while she read. — Ann Patchett

A mental model can be seen as an accumulation of a lifetime's learning about what works and what doesn't. We have a model for our boss's personality and how she will respond to certain behaviors; a model for things that will go well for a family outing and things that won't; a model for how to get ahead at work; a model for how to navigate the local traffic flow to get to work on time. The problem with any mental model is that it is always operating on information from the past. In contrast, true vision is never an arrangement or rearrangement of solutions that have worked in previous circumstances, but springs from the immediacy of today. — Timothy Butler