Deverell Plate Quotes

#1. I mix everything up. A museum curator once said to me that there is a great jazz component to the way I do things because good jazz is improvisation and draws elements from all different cultures. And that's the way I do everything - the way I dress and decorate.

Iris Apfel

#2. Hard, fast. He fucked me as if he hated me, but the words spilling out were nothing but love.

Alessandra Torre

#3. You stay successful the same way you became successful.

Jack Hyles

#4. This challenge turned out to be brunette. Feisty. Just the way I like them. But innocent. Too innocent for me. Too innocent to do anything other than sample and toss back. Anything more would be too risky, too much work.

Alessandra Torre

#5. When I die, the consciousness I carry I will to black people./May they pick me apart and take the useful parts, the sweet meat of my feelings./And leave the bitter bullshit rotten white parts alone.

Amiri Baraka

#6. Call the fire department," I said, trying hard to stay calm.
"On it." Bess said, digging into her pocket. "I'll text 911."
"Don't text, call!" I said, feeling my heart pounding in the chest.

Carolyn Keene

#7. The very notion of superiority of one kind over another will have to disappear, although differences among kind will remain.

Marilyn French

#8. We are able to use technology to make it clear that someone's car is available or a room in a home is accessible; that there is an available desk in an office someplace.

Lisa Gansky

#9. Social laughter is momentary, soon burns itself out and passes away like the fire and smokes of straw, but genius shakes the very skies with its lasting, inextinguishable laughter.

Boris Sidis

#10. What? You can't knit in the dark? Stuff and nonsense; anybody can. Shut your eyes. Knit one stitch. Open your eyes and look at the stitch; it's all right. Shut your eyes and knit two stitches. Open them. Shut them. Knit three stitches. Falling off a log is no comparison.

Elizabeth Zimmermann

#11. Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

Nicolas Chamfort

#12. Everything begins and ends at exactly the right time and place.

Joan Lindsay