1875 S Quotes

#1. I joined an Internet community of Victorian scholars, which meant that if I posted a question about 1875's lavender harvest, more than a thousand experts would ponder it.

Michel Faber

#2. As I look at the barn in my ninth decade, I see the no-smoking sign, rusted and tilting on the unpainted gray clapboard. My grandfather, born in 1875, milked his cattle there a century ago.

Donald Hall

#3. In fashion, you know you have succeeded when there is an element of upset.

Coco Chanel

#4. Online life is about premeditation.

Sherry Turkle

#5. There is a thing called the death wish, a literal thing. It doesn't mean you want to die. It just means however we're built, as we get into these years, some inner part of you does begin to accept the fact that you're heading towards the end, and there's a peace that comes with that.

Frank Langella

#6. Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#7. The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.

Sigmund Freud

#8. When 'Carmen' premiered in 1875, it was panned by the critics. It survived 45 performances. It was called a musical and moral outrage. After Bizet died, at age 37, 'Carmen' became wildly popular. If you believe in your creation, and the rest of the world is laughing or yelling 'Boo,' don't give up.

Karen DeCrow

#9. The time to right the wrong ticks with precission.

Aneta Cruz

#10. When I was a kid, I went through a lot of musical phases, and one was when I'd learn everything that The Beatles ever recorded. After I started drums, I fell in love with their music so much that I just wanted to learn everything.

Eric Carr

#11. Girls are crazy and mean. They don't fight fair.

Suzanne Vega

#12. One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible.

Ernest Shackleton

#13. A good man is like a good corset. He will always be supportive and never leave you hanging.
MISS ABIGAIL JENKINS, 1875

Margaret Brownley

#14. It's a rare business that doesn't have a way worse future than it has a past.

Charlie Munger

#15. At the beginning of that interval a type-machine was a curiosity. The person who owned one was a curiosity, too. But now it is the other way about: the person who doesn't own one is a curiosity.

Mark Twain

#16. Time define sacred events.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. As Maria Mitchell pointed out in 1875, 'Science needs women'.

Jeannine Atkins

#18. One of your many jobs as manager is information conduit, and the rules are deceptively simple: for each piece of information you see, you must correctly determine who on your team needs that piece of information to do their job.

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