“Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.”
— Florenz Ziegfeld
Author: Florenz Ziegfeld
Category: beauty
Tags: beauty, Florenz Ziegfeld
“In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime – responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors – has been removed in itself is a positive development.”
— Jose Ramos-Horta
Author: Jose Ramos-Horta
Category: positive
Tags: positive, Jose Ramos-Horta
“I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.”
— Eric Stoltz
Author: Eric Stoltz
Category: history
Tags: history, Eric Stoltz
“There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty.”
— John Boyd Orr
Author: John Boyd Orr
Category: change
Tags: change, John Boyd Orr
“I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.”
— Ernestine Rose
Author: Ernestine Rose
Category: sad
Tags: sad, Ernestine Rose