Charlotte Moss Quotes

Decorating is like math, a game of adding and subtracting.

Charlotte Moss

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• I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Up
  • Music
  • School

• At first, because this genre of music was so urban, sometimes we would sing songs that were so aggressive. And my parents didn't like it. They would break my cassettes and say, 'That music is garbage.'

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Music
  • Parents
  • Sometimes

• Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Like
  • Teeth
  • Divided

• Homophobia is manufactured in high schools, so it's probably useful to keep in mind that it really does bother people.

  

  Zak Orth
  • People
  • Mind
  • High

• If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Giving

• Books … hold within them the gathered wisdom of humanity, the collected knowledge of the world's thinkers, the amusement and excitement built up by the imaginations of brilliant people. Books contain humor, beauty, wit, emotion, thought, and, indeed, all of life. Life without books is empty.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• There is something that happens to the mind in moments of terror. Perhaps we figure it's the last we'll ever have and we record it for the rest of our long journey. We take perfect snapshots, an album to despair over. We trim the edges and place them in plastic. We tuck the scrapbook away to take out in our ruined times.

  

  Colum McCann
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Perfect

• Plus léger qu'un bouchon j'ai dansé sur les flots.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud

• The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.

  

  Mary Martin
  • Work
  • Words
  • Communication

• We're thinking of creating a board of experts across the sectors of industry, to identify successful programs and to make recommendations about programs that are working and aren't working.

  

  Cory Gardner
  • Thinking

• I don't like sensationalizing events. Instead of making waves, I want to make everything settle, so we can see to the bottom of things.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Waves

• Frank Sinatra. Hey, Frank, I saw you in 'The Pride and Passion,' and I want to tell you the cannon was wonderful!

  

  Don Rickles
  • Passion
  • Pride

• A lot has been done to improve safety and soundness and confidence in financial markets and financial institutions, a lot of which was necessary.

  

  Marianne Lake
  • Done
  • Confidence
  • Financial

• I feel pretty good when I get out of bed in the morning. I don't feel all beat up, which is nice.

  

  Drew Bledsoe
  • Up
  • Good
  • Pretty

• When humans behave murderously, such as inflicting senseless slaughter of innocents in warfare, we like to blame it on some dark, 'animalistic' instinct.

  

  Frans de Waal
  • Dark

• All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.

  

  Jessica Lange
  • Life

• If you swap it about, do television, theatre, film, you can go on surprising yourself. The problem is you get employed to do something you've already done. They want something from that sheep pen of performances they've seen you do.

  

  Kenneth Cranham
  • Done
  • Theatre

• Thought that is no longer limited, brings experience that is no longer limited.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Experience
  • Limited
  • Brings

• Porque saben el nombre de lo que busco ¡creen que saben lo que busco!

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Les sanglots longsDes violonsDe l'automneBlessent mon cœurD'une langueurMonotone.

  

  Paul Verlaine

• I'm a member of BAFTA, so I vote in all the films that come up for the Academy Awards.

  

  Ray Fearon
  • Vote
  • Awards
  • Member

• Decorating is like math, a game of adding and subtracting.

  

  Charlotte Moss