Retouching Academy Quotes & Sayings

One's appreciation of nature is never more acuet than when a bit of nature is injected into one's flesh. — Howard Evans

If the truth about loving or hateful choices were revealed it would break open the earth's crust. Which is why we live in legalized and general delusion. Fiction takes the place of reality. This is why simply naming one of these turns of the unconscious that are part of our strange human adventure engenders such upsets (which are at once intimate, individual, and political); why consciously or unconsciously we constantly try to save ourselves from this naming. — Helene Cixous

The prevention of emotional and behavioral disorders encompasses intervening in the early years — James M. Kauffman

He measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned. — Jorge Luis Borges

I can't do this," she whispered.
He nodded. "I know."
"I want to but I--"
"It's okay." He brushed a kiss over her jaw and then was gone, proving for the second time now that he was, after all, her perfect Mr. All Wrong.

-Mallory and Ty — Jill Shalvis

Modern people always appeared to be rushing about doing things, having no time, it seemed, for looking at the sky, — Alexander McCall Smith

Betty White is a riot. She is a good time! That is the bottom line: Betty White is a good time. She is really an incredible woman. She is so kind. She doesn't have one mean bone in her body, and she is the funniest woman in the room always. And you'll never hear one complaint from her. — Odette Annable

Of course she is a fool, but so are all girls. — Georgette Heyer

Prayer is the companion of Bible study. — Billy Graham

My actual life is a fact, in view of which I have no occasion to congratulate myself; but for my faith and aspiration I have respect. It is from these that I speak. — Henry David Thoreau

I don't want to be classified as an old-skool DJ or new-skool DJ. I want to be classified as an all-skool DJ who plays it all. I also want to learn to DJ house music in my own fashion. — Grandmaster Flash

Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper? — Robert Orben

Cockburn's personal history links him to the politics of the Communist Party, and there are still moments in his writing - debating the number of people estimated to have perished in Stalin's gulags, claiming that 'the Brezhnev years were a Golden Age for the Soviet working class', when aspects of his father's convictions can be glimpsed. — Alexander Cockburn