Taloona Quotes & Sayings

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn. — Robert Burns

In the '80s, it got to the point where we'd have shows with a hundred looks. You'd want to order a pizza before it was over! — Michael Kors

This praise, though far from fulsome, gave me pleasure and that is to my shame. But there was something in him, some power of spirit, that made me want to please him. Perhaps, it occurs to me now, it was no more than the intensity of his wish. Men are distinguished by the power of their wanting. What this one wanted became his province and his meal, he governed it and fed on it from the first moment of desire. Besides, with the perversity of our nature, being tested had made me more desire to succeed, though knowing the enterprise to be sinful. — Barry Unsworth

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company. — Samuel Johnson

You've got to change with the public's taste. — Nat King Cole

If I could meet my mother and marry her, I would. I would be with my mother now, if she weren't my mother, as sick as that sounds. — Shia Labeouf

When the trust between the police and the communities they serve breaks down, everyone is at risk. — Eric Schneiderman

There are no great men, just great circumstances, and how they handle those circumstances will determine the outcome of history. — William Halsey

I was looking for someone to formulate a skin care line I could use. — Connie Sellecca

The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration? — Kate Christensen

2.27 THE ULTIMATE
With compassion and renunciation walking,
With wants and desires ever shedding,
With love within one's heart flowing,
Peace and Divinity shall never be wanting.
[158] - 2 — Munindra Misra

The novel had a framework made by thinking. The thought was that to divide off and compartmentalize living was dangerous and led to nothing but trouble. Old, young; black, white; men, women; capitalism, socialism; these dichotomies undo us, force us into unreal categorisation, make us look for what separates us rather than what we have in common. That was the thought, which made the shape or pattern of 'The Golden Notebook'. But the emotions were stronger than the thought. This is why I have always seen TGN as a failure: a failure in my terms, of what I had meant. For has this book changed by an iota our tendency to think like computers set to sort everything - people, ideas, history - into boxes? No, it has not. Yet why should I have such a hubristic thought? But I was in the grip of discovery, of revelation. I had only just seen this Truth: I was watching my own mind working like a sorting machine, and I was appalled. — Doris Lessing

I realized the best argentine meat was an appendage best served hot, wet, throbbing, & erect. — 5amWriterMan