“Me too." I agree fervently. "Every film should definitely have a message."
Which is true. I mean... take the Lord of the Rings movies- they've got loads of messages. Like "Don't lose your ring.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic and Sister
“Ciao," I say casually, and flick my hair back. "Si. Ciao."
I could so be Italian. Except I might have to learn a few more words.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic and Sister
“I know this is our honeymoon. But just sometimes, I wish Luke was a girl.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic and Sister
“I feel a bit apprehensive as I see that he's looking directly at me. But I'm not doing anything wrong, am I? I mean, it's not like stalking is against the law.
Oh. Well, OK, maybe stalking is against the law. But I've only been doing it for five minutes. Surely that doesn't count. And anyway, how does he know I'm stalking anyone? I might just be sitting here for my pleasure.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic and Sister
“Something tells me organizing a protest against your husband’s client has got to be even worse than selling his Tiffany clocks.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic and Sister
“Material possessions aren't important to me," I say breathlessly. "All that matters to me is yoga.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic and Sister
“But that's what happens in life. People find new friends and new sisters. It's called natural selection.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic and Sister
“You’ve gone back to the way you used to be before. The way you promised you’d never be again.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic and Sister
“In business, if you want to make money, you have to spend money. If you want to have a result, you have to make an investment.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic and Sister
“I mean . . . take the Lord of the Rings movies—they’ve got loads of messages. Like “Don’t lose your ring.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic and Sister
“The first story is all about the president washing his piano. At least I’m pretty sure that’s what presidente and lavoro pieno must mean”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic and Sister
“I can't move. I'm paralyzed in the middle of the street, like the donkey in that Aesop's fable who couldn't choose between the bales of hay. They'll find me in years to come, still frozen to the spot, clutching my credit card.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic and Sister
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“Some of us weren't born for rewards, Froi. We were born for sacrifices.”
― Melina Marchetta, quote from Froi of the Exiles
“The weak may not be admired and hero-worshipped; but they are by no means disliked or shunned; and they never seem to have the least difficulty in marrying people who are too good for them. They may fail in emergencies; but life is not one long emergency: it is mostly a string of situations for which no exceptional strength is needed, and with which even rather weak people can cope if they have a stronger partner to help them out.”
― George Bernard Shaw, quote from Pygmalion
“I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every states I visited. Nearly every American hungers to move.”
― John Steinbeck, quote from Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“...looking at him makes her feel like laughing all over - as if she could laugh not just with her mouth but with her eyes, her heart, her very limbs.”
― Gregory Maguire, quote from Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
“I heard that when white folks go fishin they do somethin called 'catch and release.'
Catch and release? I nodded solemnly, suddenly nervous and curious at the same time.
'That really bothers me', Denver went on. 'I just can't figure it out. 'Cause when colored folks go fishin, we really proud of what we catch, and we take it and show it off to everybody that'll look. Then we eat what we catch...in other words, we use it to SUSTAIN us. So it really bothers me that white folks would go to all the trouble to catch a fish, when when they done caught it, just throw it back in the water.'
He paused again, and the silence between us stretched a full minute. Then: 'Did you hear what I said?'
I nodded, afraid to speak, afraid to offend.
Denver looked away, searching the blue autumn sky, then locked onto me again with that drill-bit start. 'So, Mr. Ron, it occurred to me: If you is fishin for a friend you just gon' catch and release, then I ain't got no desire to be your friend.'
I returned Denver's gaze with what I hoped was a receptive expression and hung on.
Suddenly his eyes gentled and he spoke more softly than before: 'But if you is lookin for a REAL friend, then I'll be one. Forever.”
― Ron Hall, quote from Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
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