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The area was encompassed in a bubble of warm, fragrant steam from the funnel cake deep fryers. It smelled like sweet vanilla cake batter you licked off a spoon.
Sarah Addison Allen
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The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone.
Omar Khayyam
After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family.
Victoria de los Angeles
I don't think I ever thought of growing up to be anything other than a musician. There really wasn't a plan B. Well, a kind of a distant plan B was to be a Formula One driver, but there really wasn't an entry point.
J. D. Souther
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
W. Somerset Maugham
Sometimes I hate a shoe in seconds.
Manolo Blahnik
I used to have a rant all the time when things went wrong, at everybody around me, because you just have to get the frustration out.
Victoria Pendleton
Today, near the end of my days, I want to say that I harbor no rancor against anybody, that I love my fatherland above all and that I take political responsibility for everything that was done which had no other goal than making Chile greater and avoiding its disintegration.… I assume full political responsibility for what happened.
Augusto Pinochet
'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours,And ask them what report they bore to heaven.
Edward Young
What a city, what a night, what a crowd, what a bomb, what a mistake, what a wanker you have for a President.
Bono
U2
For the charities, their relationships with celebrity supporters should be as deep and purposeful as the ones they have with any of their supporters and volunteers, based on a genuine understanding of the issues they're tackling.
David Harewood
Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.
Fritz Kreisler
Don't worry about not fitting in. The things that make people think you're weird are what makes you you, and therefore your greatest strength.
Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
Living with my grandmother in Bath, I sort of thought I was living in the 19th century. My grandmother was someone who, in a way, was rather defiantly trying to live a pre-World War I existence.
Charles Palliser
The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.
Joan D. Vinge
Here," Myrnin said, his voice still gentle and low. "Amelie said you had to work. No one said you had to work alone." He picked up the next part and slotted it in, took the screwdriver from Claire's numbed fingers, and fastened it with a couple of deft, fast movements. "I'll be your hands." She wanted to cry, because it was so sweet, but it wouldn't do any good.
Rachel Caine
I'm not a cheerleader. I'm not trying to pretend to be sweet and then come out and be bad. This is who I am.
Amanda Lee Williford
In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.
Barack Obama
The area was encompassed in a bubble of warm, fragrant steam from the funnel cake deep fryers. It smelled like sweet vanilla cake batter you licked off a spoon.
Sarah Addison Allen
