Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Anthony Bourdain: Control freak
“I’m a control freak. If you’re going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it.” —Anthony Bourdain. Embed from Getty Images
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Germaine Greer: Children
“We can only afford two children’ is a squalid argument, but more acceptable in our society than ‘we don’t like children’.” ― Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch. Embed from Getty Images
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Sidney Sheldon: Up all night
“When people tell me I’ve kept them up all night, I feel like I’ve succeeded.” ~Sidney Sheldon. Embed from Getty Images
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Sterling Hayden: Hamburger meat
I don’t think I’ll have to kill her. Just slap that pretty face into hamburger meat, that’s all.—Sterling Hayden. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/502331053
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Germaine Greer: Men in uniform
“Men are the enemy in much the same way that some crazed boy in uniform was the enemy of another like him in most respects except the uniform. One possible tactic is to try to get the uniforms off.” ― Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch. Embed from Getty Images
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Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld: Love
“There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.” -Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld, aphorist (1613-1680).
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Jonathan LaPaglia: Slapping and children
I just couldn’t imagine hitting a child. But in ‘The Slap’ it’s an extreme situation. You have to ask yourself – would you step in if a child was out of control? —Jonathan LaPaglia. Embed from Getty Images
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Germaine Greer: Capture
“I got him’ is nonsense in terms of love relationships, and so is ‘I lost him’. If we could stop thinking in terms of capture, we would not have to fear the loosening of the captives’ bonds and our failing beauty, and he would not have ulcers about being outstripped or belittled.” ― Germaine Greer,…
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Karl Kraus: Solitary confinement
“The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.” ~Karl Kraus.
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Germaine Greer: Hoops of steel
“Every wife who slaves to keep herself pretty, to cook her husband’s favourite meals, to build up his pride and confidence in himself at the expense of his sense of reality, to be his closest and effectively his only friend, to encourage him to reject the consensus of opinion and find reassurance only in her…
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Robert Brault: Don't Let Them Steal Your Peace
My Positive Outlooks Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got. — Robert Brault View original post
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Samuel Bueno: Running
Running down by the railroad track. It is an absolutely powerful feeling to run right next to the train while it is rolling by. I get this awesome feeling of power coursing through my body as if I am one with the train. —Runner’s World Challenger Samuel Bueno’s idea of a rave run.
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Germaine Greer: Politeness and contempt
“I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.” ― Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch. Embed from Getty Images
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Roald Dahl: Not a joke anymore
Embed from Getty Images “The fine line between roaring with laughter and crying because it’s a disaster is a very, very fine line. You see a chap slip on a banana skin in the street and you roar with laughter when he falls slap on his backside. If in doing so you suddenly see he’s…
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Jessamyn West: Youth and elders
“There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive. ” —Jessamyn West.
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Germaine Greer: Status
“Status ought not to be measured by a woman’s ability to attract and snare a man.” ― Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch. Embed from Getty Images
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Jessica Mitford: Embarrass the guilty
“You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.” – Jessica Mitford, author, journalist, and civil rights activist (1917-1996). Embed from Getty Images
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Hand-Me-Downs: People
Clothes and toys, recipes and jokes, advice and prejudice: we all have to handle all sorts of hand-me-downs every day. Tell us about some of the meaningful hand-me-downs in your life. (Thank you for the inspired prompt suggestion, Jen Groeber!) People are not hand-me-downs. Embed from Getty Images
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Paul O'Grady: Opinion
If I wanted your opinion, I’d slap it outta ya. —Paul O’Grady. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/144408918
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George W. Bush: American resolve
“Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.” —George W. Bush. Embed from Getty Images
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Germaine Greer: Love object
“The love object occupies the thoughts of the person diagnosed as ‘in love’ all the time despite the probability that very little is actually known about it. To it are ascribed all qualities considered by the obsessed as good, regardless of whether the object in question possesses those qualities in any degree. Expectations are set…
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Germaine Greer: Security
“Security is the denial of life.” ― Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch. Embed from Getty Images
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Germaine Greer: Woman
“Maybe I couldn’t make it. Maybe I don’t have a pretty smile, good teeth, nice tits, long legs, a cheeky arse, a sexy voice. Maybe I don’t know how to handle men and increase my market value, so that the rewards due to the feminine will accrue to me. Then again, maybe I’m sick of…
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HP Lovecraft: Creative minds
Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots. -HP Lovecraft, short-story writer and novelist (1890-1937).
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Elizabeth Drew: Language
Language is like soil. However rich, it is subject to erosion, and its fertility is constantly threatened by uses that exhaust its vitality. It needs constant reinvigoration if it is not to become arid and sterile. -Elizabeth Drew, author (1887-1965). Embed from Getty Images
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Pope Francis: Mercy
Embed from Getty Images “A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.” ~Pope Francis.
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Jennifer Lopez: Just one thing
“I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it’s all just one thing.” ~Jennifer Lopez. Embed from Getty Images
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Rita Gunther McGrath: Customers
“Don’t listen what your customers say. Watch how they behave.” ~Rita Gunther McGrath.
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Vladimir Nabokov: Writing
Embed from Getty Images “The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.” —Vladimir Nabokov, novelist (1899-1977).
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Mother Teresa: Beautiful, pure, immaculate
“Mary, give me your Heart: so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate; your Heart so full of love and humility that I may be able to receive Jesus in the Bread of Life and love Him as you love Him and serve Him in the distressing guise of the poor.” — Blessed Mother Teresa.
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Maximilian Kolbe: Blessed Virgin
“Never be afraid of loving the Blessed Virgin too much. You can never love her more than Jesus did.” –Saint Maximilian Kolbe.
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Nikita Khrushchev: Life
“But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you. ” —Nikita Khrushchev.
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AA Milne: Rivers
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. -AA Milne author (1882-1956).
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Alex Ferguson: Games to play
“As long as there are games to play, it is not over.” ~Alex Ferguson. Embed from Getty Images
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Samuel Johnson: Writing
“The greatest part of a writer’s time in spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.” ~Samuel Johnson.
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Christian Dior: Shoes
“You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are unimportant, but the real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet.” ~Christian Dior.
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Priyanka Chopra: Dil Yeh Ziddi Hai
“My best learnings: Boxing is hard, the punches hurt like crazy. Push me to my limit and I’ll cross it. After all, Dil Yeh Ziddi Hai. Never give up — winners never quit and quitters never win. Trust yourself to deliver on your dreams. Smile, laugh, live… What have you got…
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Ellen Terry: Being eccentric
“There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is. ” —Ellen Terry.
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Oscar Wilde: Men and women
“Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.” ~Oscar Wilde.
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Otto von Bismarck: Sausages and laws
“To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making. ” —Otto von Bismarck.
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Lisa Ray: Beauty
“Beauty is defined through the effect it has on me. It may make me want to stop, gaze, sketch, touch, photograph, absorb or increase my pulse.” ~Lisa Ray.
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Marjane Satrapi: Americans
I had this fantasy that in a democracy the government was the population. So I came to America and got a big slap in my face… Americans were not what I thought. I thought I was going to see bastards and I saw nice people, very friendly to me. —Marjane Satrapi.
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Tom Peters: Shit communicators
“Some of you have minds that move very fast. Hurrah. BUT: Typically, you are shit communicators. WORK ON IT.” ~Tom Peters.
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Willy Brandt: Courage
“It often takes more courage to change one’s opinion than to keep it. ” Willy Brandt
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Agatha Christie: Justice first, mercy second
“Too much mercy…often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.” ~Agatha Christie.
