Sprucing Up Quotes

#1. Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#2. I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they had nor could have sympathy with anything in me ...

Charlotte Bronte

#3. If a man has learned to think, no matter what he may think about, he is always thinking of his own death. All philosophers were like that. And what truth can there be, if there is death?

William Barrett

#4. Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger lies in the way of duty, knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny. If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it, at least, for your good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. When you're winning the grass is greener, the cigars are sweeter and the girls are better looking!

Mark Grace

#6. If I were to sit normally, my deductive skills will immediately be reduced by roughly 40%
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Tsugumi Ohba

#7. Every day you play with the light of the universe.

Pablo Neruda

#8. I'm more of a chaser, really. ANGLE

J.K. Rowling

#9. I have more energy at the end than I do at the beginning. You can be so beat up that you can scarcely walk on stage but when you get to the piano the excitement kicks in, you forget about being tired.

Dave Brubeck

#10. I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals - mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn't have electricity, we ate romantically by candlelight.

Jill Scott

#11. I now believe that there are only four things a grown, modern woman should have: a pair of yellow shoes (they unexpectedly go with everything), a friend who will come and post bail at 4 a.m., a fail-safe pie recipe, and a proper muff.

Caitlin Moran

#12. This year, more people will use cocaine than will read a book to their children.

Michael Scott

#13. God is the best makeup Artist I have ever seen however, you may get an honorable mention for sprucing.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#14. There is strong shadow where there is much light.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe