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Marilyn Monroe quote: "Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch..."

Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside".

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In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these monsters deeper down, if you drop with them farther over the world's rim, you find what our sciences cannot locate or name, the substrate, the ocean or matrix or ether which buoys the rest, which gives goodness its power for good, and evil its power for evil, the unified field: our complex and inexplicable caring for each other, and for our life together here. This is given. It is not learned. Annie Dillard
Addie, please." More tears dripped down her cheeks. "Don't be so hard."Oh, please," I muttered...and that was as far as I got. 'You broke my heart' were the words that had risen to my mouth, but I couldn't say them. That was what you said to a boyfriend, a lover, not your best friend. She'd laugh. And I'd had enough of being laughed at. I'd worked hard to get to a place where it didn't happen anymore, where I didn't move through life like a walking target, where it was just me and my paints... Jennifer Weiner
It's guff. It doesn't advance the action. It makes for nice fat books such as the American market thrives on, but it doesn't actually get you anywhere. Douglas Adams
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time. Honore de Balzac
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any..."
Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them. Henry David Thoreau
I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. That's when I realized that since the age of 10 I've been using 2012 as my pin number. But now that I've won gold in the 2012 Olympics, I've achieved that goal and, for the first time in 14 years, I'll have to change my pin. Cameron van der Burgh
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience. Johan Huizinga
Jim Fowler quote: "Along 4 Mile Run, there was a nice woods down in front of the..."
Along 4 Mile Run, there was a nice woods down in front of the house. I used to run around there. Jim Fowler
Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction!Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction and now you are demanding satisfaction. I cannot spend my time day and night satisfying the demands of the Chater family. Tom Stoppard
If you mean you think it is my job to go into the secret passage first, O Thorin Thrain’s son Oakenshield, may your beard grow ever longer,” he said crossly, “say so at once and have done! J. R. R. Tolkien
My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see. Gunter Grass
Lorna Luft quote: "Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego..."
Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door. Lorna Luft
Norman Granz quote: "I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe."
I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe. Norman Granz
Nowadays I’m really cranky about comics. Because most of them are just really, really poorly written soft-core. And I miss good old storytelling. And you know what else I miss? Super powers. Why is it now that everybody’s like “I can reverse the polarity of your ions!” Like in one big flash everybody’s Doctor Strange. I like the guys that can stick to walls and change into sand and stuff. I don’t understand anything anymore. And all the girls are wearing nothing, and they all look like they... Joss Whedon
Ludwig von Mises quote: "The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war."
The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war. Ludwig von Mises