Simeone De Beauvoir Quotes & Sayings

In Khazak culture, historically, if any traveller comes riding from a long way, there is an obligation to take him into your home. For the first three days, the host doesn't even have the right to ask his name, his destination or his business. — Tim Cope

One evening in one of those Over-the-Rhine cafes which were plentiful along Vine Street of the Cincinnati of the nineties, a traveling salesman leaned across his stein of Moerlein's Extra Light and openly accused Ray Schmidt of being innocent. — Fannie Hurst

My wife gets mad because we'll be in the middle of something and I'll stop and say, 'No, I've got to write this down!' She'll say, 'No! We're in a discussion!' I say, 'I know, but it's hilarious! — Henry Cho

Khadi mentality means decentralization of the production and distribution of the necessaries of life. — Mahatma Gandhi

You're a legend in your own mind. — Harry Callahan

Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men commend, What trusty treasure in the world can counterfail a friend? — Nicholas Grimald

Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands - two equally harmful disciplines. — Simone De Beauvoir

Jerott's eyes and Philippa's met. 'When I meet my friend,' said Jerott Blyth carefully, 'there is likely to be a detonation which will take the snow off Mont Blanc. I advise you to seek other auspices. Philippa, I think we should go down below.'

'To swim?' said that unprepossessing child guilelessly. 'I can stand on my head.'

'Oh, Christ,' said Jerott morosely. 'Why in hell did you come?' The brown eyes within the damp, dun-coloured hair inspected him narrowly.

'Because you need a woman,' said Philippa finally. 'And I'm the nearest thing to it that you're likely to get. It was very short notice. — Dorothy Dunnett

If it's bitter at the start, then it's sweeter in the end. — Madonna Ciccone

We must do what we think we can't do. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Entire families work for Xerox. — Anne M. Mulcahy

It was the kind of snow that didn't amount to anything on the ground. It would just dust the dead grass. The technical term for that level, he decided, was an "annoyance" of snow. — Cassandra Clare

None of us are as creative as all of us. — Steve Jobs