Glorified Housekeeper Quotes

#1. I swore I'd never become some lord's brainless arm ornament and political host, but I've become far worse. I'm a glorified housekeeper and sperm donor.
-from the journal of Payton Marcus Townsend.

J.L. Langley

#2. I rarely buy a shoe that is completely specific to a time and outfit. I generally tend to spend money on good shoes that can go with everything.

Melanie Fiona

#3. I think that emotional content is an image's most important element, regardless of the photographic technique. Much of the work I see these days lacks the emotional impact to draw a reaction from viewers, or remain in their hearts.

Anne Geddes

#4. A whispering and watery Norfolk sound
Telling of all the moonlit reeds around.

John Betjeman

#5. I need to get through today, and maybe tomorrow will feel easier. It always gets easier as you get used to it.

Alexandra Bracken

#6. I never went to acting school, so improv was my training. Just being quick on your feet helps in everyday life.

Ben Schwartz

#7. Without play at many levels of language, from phonemes to logical structures, a poem is merely prose with linebreaks added.

Helen Vendler

#8. They do not truly love who do not show their love.

Vince Lombardi

#9. Be careful what you yearn for, because that which you desire most will either complete you or destroy you, and you don't get to choose.

William Lashner

#10. Marriage
yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.

Mark Twain

#11. Rising demand for animal products highlights microbiological risks, with animal-welfare measures sometimes creating new hazards. For example, open pens for poultry may increase the spread of communicable diseases like avian influenza.

Louise Fresco

#12. Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Benjamin Disraeli

#13. We actually form the world at every instant, although we're not cognitively aware of that but - and there are people would argue with that to some degree.

Robert Irwin