Figwood Cleaning Quotes

#1. Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice.

Pierce Brosnan

#2. To be well married you have to a penchant for the intricacies of intimacy and larval change..If the personality is a spider's web, you will want to know every thread ... Pleasures no longer come to you, but there are pickings to be had if you can learn to scavenge for them" ("The Body")

Hanif Kureishi

#3. Good science is done by being curious in general, by asking questions all around, by acknowledging the likelihood of being wrong and taking this in good humor for granted, by having a deep fondness for nature, and by being made jumpy and nervous by ignorance.

Lewis Thomas

#4. I see there is a lot of behaviour in men's fashion, which is systematic. It's a lot about all these kind of clothes that can be easily combined with each other, and it's less and less, I think, about making a fashion statement.

Raf Simons

#5. Where was he travelling to this week?
India? Yes, India. She suspected he had a mistress in Brussels, but they never spoke about that. For years she had detected the scents of miscellaneous perfumes on his shirts following his business trips.

Stanley Moss

#6. When your house is on fire, you cant be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if your King is under attack you don't worry about losing a Pawn on the Queen's side

Garry Kasparov

#7. I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really defy anyone to watch any of my plays and say 'Well, here's the point.'

Tony Kushner

#8. Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#9. But in the hours since they'd saved our asses and turned the tide of the battle, I had not spotted either of my brothers amongst the living. Did not know if Cassian or Azriel had even fought on the plain.

Sarah J. Maas

#10. In a snowfall that covers the winter grass a white heron uses his own whiteness to disappear.

Dogen

#11. We were perfectly willing to go in there and rest, but it could not be done. It was only another delusion - a painting by some ingenious artist with little charity in his heart for tired folk.

Mark Twain

#12. One could argue the GOP made no progress on limiting government in their four years of total control from 2002 to 2006. If anything, government expanded like never before.

Chuck Todd

#13. He tried to kiss me. One of the few things that had impressed me in college was a Southern girl's account o how she avoided being kissed on the doorstep of her house once by wearing a flower in her hair and sticking it in her mouth when she said good night. Only I had no flower.

Elaine Dundy