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A human heart that matched what we think of as heart-shaped; a perfectly formed bright red thing with two halves of equal size; would be one that was horribly diseased. The origin of this stylized representation is somewhat obscure, but it probably appeared at the same time as St. Valentine's Day, about whose history there is much dispute. ~George Fetherling
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ~Charlize Theron
#quotes #charlize-theron #travel #world #south-africa
My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda. ~Rick Derringer
#quotes #rick-derringer #writing #family #helping
In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done; but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. ~Lee Hall
#quotes #lee-hall #gardening #theatre
If you were to open up a baby's head, and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should; you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland. ~Dave Barry
#quotes #dave-barry #humor
I know just how isolating it can feel to experience severe anxiety. ~Zoe Sugg
#quotes #zoe-sugg #experience #anxiety
She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. ~Louisa May Alcott
#quotes #louisa-may-alcott #hero
I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility. ~Imelda Marcos
#quotes #imelda-marcos #nobility #humanity
From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. ~David Antin
#quotes #david-antin #entertainment #language
I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. ~Mark Leyner
#quotes #mark-leyner #happiness
Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
#proverbs #yiddish-proverbs #equality #destiny
proverbiosI haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager. I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I did'nt really care. It did'nt bother me at all. ~Vivienne Westwood
#quotes #vivienne-westwood #teenage #girls #boys
The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies. ~Antoni Tapies
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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do. ~Anthony Trollope
#quotes #anthony-trollope #law
The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables. The political concept of the individual's freedom means: freedom from arbitrary action on the part of the police power. ~Ludwig von Mises
#quotes #ludwig-von-mises #politics #freedom
Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
#quotes #anthony-burgess #language #translation #design #culture
My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart; I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade. ~Tony Parsons
#quotes #tony-parsons #rod-stewart #dave-hill
Are you the welcoming committee? Or has Jeremy finally chained you up to the front gate where you belong?" "I missed you too. ~Kelley Armstrong
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
#quotes #richard-ford #poverty #floods #new-orleans
No social ties can be formed in the absence of alcohol. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #alcohol
If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
#proverbs #japanses-proverbs #reading #conformity
In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight. ~Bobby Rahal
#quotes #bobby-rahal #competition
I occasionally got called the Rush Limbaugh of Indiana, but most people knew that my style was different. ~Mike Pence
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