“Well, come back and have tea with us," saidMoon-Face. "Silky's got some Pop Biscuits -andI've made some Google Buns. I don't often makethem-and I tell you they're a treat!”
― Enid Blyton, quote from The Enchanted Wood
“there was such a lot of whispering that it sounded like a thousand leaves rustling at once!”
― Enid Blyton, quote from The Enchanted Wood
“The three children had no chance to visit the”
― Enid Blyton, quote from The Enchanted Wood
“down to the foot of the tree to”
― Enid Blyton, quote from The Enchanted Wood
Enid Blyton
Born place: in East Dulwich, South London, The United Kingdom
Born date August 11, 1897
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“My eyes refuse to let him leave, but he stands still holding my hand, lingering for as long as possible.”
― Thomas Sweeney, quote from The Harem
“The naïveté of human beings is truly breathtaking”
― Greg Iles, quote from Turning Angel
“Not all princes he had read about in books of legends are beautiful and noble and carry their heads high.”
― James Purdy, quote from Narrow Rooms
“Low-end disruption has occurred several times in retailing.16 For example, full-service department stores had a business model that enabled them to turn inventories three times per year. They needed to earn 40 percent gross margins to make money within their cost structure. They therefore earned 40 percent three times each year, for a 120 percent annual return on capital invested in inventory (ROCII). In the 1960s, discount retailers such as Wal-Mart and Kmart attacked the low end of the department stores’ market—nationally branded hard goods such as paint, hardware, kitchen utensils, toys, and sporting goods—that were so familiar in use that they could sell themselves. Customers in this tier of the market were overserved by department stores, in that they did not need well-trained floor sales-people to help them get what they needed. The discounters’ business model enabled them to make money at gross margins of about 23 percent, on average. Their stocking policies and operating processes enabled them to turn inventories more than five times annually, so that they also earned about 120 percent annual ROCII. The discounters did not accept lower levels of profitability—their business model simply earned acceptable profit through a different formula.17”
― Clayton M. Christensen, quote from The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
“Everything was temporary; she understood that now. All of this was temporary. It would all be snatched away. It was all on loan. Even the people we love. They were all on loan. One day you see their face across a rickety table or you pass them hurrying from here to there, or you see them leave you in your bed, and their profile passes you by...and you don't know...your thoughts somewhere else. And then they are snatched away forever and you did not know to say goodbye. You did not know.”
― Karen Kondazian, quote from The Whip
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